Re: Middle Earth Riddle solved

From: ayma@tip.nl

Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 00:00:00 +0000

zubla@sprynet.com (Greg Chapman) wrote:

>Jeff Dobberpuhl <attorney@mr.net> wrote:

>>The answer to the previous riddle was LEGOLAS

>Since they say that was the correct answer then GSI's clues
>are flawed.  The Return of the King, paperback.  Appendix B.
>p.470  S.R. 1421 The Bearers of Rings depart over Sea.
>p.470  S.R. 1422 Fourth Age begins.
>p.472  S.R. 1541/Fourth Age 120 (Gondor)
>            King Elessar (Aragon II) dies.
>            Legolas built a great ship in Ithilien and went over Sea.
>                Gimli the Dwarf may have gone with him.

>We're not nitpicking a year or two here, clearly Legolas left
>Middle-Earth well into the Fourth Age.  The riddle is flawed.

>The entire implementation of the riddle game isn't true to J.R.R.
>in any case.  The riddles and riddle clues are supposed to cleverly
>lead to objects that all creatures have encountered: eggs, teeth,
>aging, wind, etc.  This is what made it a common leveling ground
>between entities of disparate race, culture, class and economic
>status.

**You are correct, Greg! Did you report to GSI? They appreciate such
oversights, so they can correct in the future [I just reported in on
the erronous Durin IV [should be VI] on page 116];  they are REALLY
trying to prevent cashes with the Tolkinian canon.
If you have any other oversights, please send them to me too - in some
time I will have to translate the riddles into Dutch.
Aayko

References

Middle Earth Riddle solved
Jeff Dobberpuhl <attorney@mr.net>
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Middle Earth Riddle solved
zubla@sprynet.com (Greg Chapman)
Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:00:00 +0000