Re: Middle Earth Riddle

From: kelsey@jupiter.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Mike Kelsey)

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 23:22:34 +0000

In article <C5syGt.1BG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, creps@lateran.ucs.indiana.edu (Stephen A. Creps) writes:
|> In article <1993Apr19.233933.24248@udel.edu> baidins@dori.cis.udel.edu (Juris Baidins) writes:
|> >In the Game Systems Inc. Middle Earth game I have come across the
|> >following riddle and would like some candidate answers.
|> >
|> >Linked and yet linked again
|> >bound to be bound for binding
|> >once to hold for great ages three
|> >til one did find himself free
|>
|>    Hmm.  A chain?

The chain Angainor, forged by Aule in the Elder Days of the magic metal
"tilkal."  Tilkal was itself an alloy of gold, silver, iron, etc., blended
together and forged into links, which in turn were joined into the chain.

After the first War of the Valar, when Utumno was overthrown, Angainor was
used to bind Melkor in the fastness of Mandos for three ages, until he be
brought to the Ring of Doom, there to be tried again or pardoned.

-- Mike Kelsey
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References

Re: Middle Earth Riddle
creps@lateran.ucs.indiana.edu (Stephen A. Creps)
Tue, 20 Apr 1993 22:00:28 +0000