2025 Summer Treasure Hunt: Results and Answers
Welcome back everyone, I hope you all enjoyed the summer hunt. As always, the solutions to the clues will be posted below. But first, here are the winners!
- Green_Giant 1 hour 55 minutes
- Aylalya and Kulmo 3 hours
- Nexus3_ 3 hours 30 mins
- creepy999
- Shirrgo
- silversita2
Clues:
Clue 1:
‘Caught like a fly in a spider's treacherous web!’
Hint: Insert ‘Gandalf the Grey’ before the clue.
Answer: Orthanc (o) (1328, 197, 122)
Clue 2:
Amongst the iris, treachery was brewing. Not just one party, but two!
Hint: Look for the search parties in the fields of flowers and marsh.
Answer: Gladden Fields (W) (5224, 72, -3507)
Clue 3:
1590
Hint: Seek the forging of great powers.
Answer: Ost-in-Edhil (r) (831, 21, -1307)
Clue 4:
Honoured by burning, the memory of bloody corpses still vivid.
Hint: “There is one I could follow. There is one I could call King.”
Answer: In between the East Gate and Lothlorien. (Dimril Dale) (n) (3115, 77, -1930)
Clue 5:
8 15 18 14
Hint: Seek the Old English.
Answer: Helm’s Deep Mountains (f) (3115, 77, -1930)
Clue 6:
Lay Down
Sleep Now
Why do you weep?
Safe in my arms
What can you see
Across the sea
And all will turn to silver glass
Hope fades
Don’t say
And you’ll be here in my arms
What can you see
Across the sea
And all will turn to silver glass
Hint: Into the West we go, across the Sundering Sea.
Answer: Grey Havens (i) (-6829, -30, -4263)
Clue 7:
as seen by the _____ ______; being the memoirs of _____ … supplemented by the accounts of their friends and the learning of the Wise.
Found seventeen years later.
Hint: Another adventure with a nice relax at the end of it. Some things never go away…
Answer: Rivendell (hall of fire) (l) (3597, 46, -4448)
Clue 8:
A highly useful and sturdy tool, capable of slaying the most fell of hawks.
Hint: A messenger of failure, later to forge new alliances.
Answer: Lothlorien (by the boats) (w) (4577, 47, -1843)
Clue 9:
A sudden and favourable resolution of events in a story; a happy ending.
Hint: Cormacolindor, a laita tárienna!
Answer: Field of Cormallen (d) (8538, -9, 2506)
Clue 10:
Green, seen, stone, alone. (start of 1, end rhymes)
Old, cold; falls; halls. (start of 6, end rhymes)
Hint: It drums, drums in the deep.
Answer: Khazad Dum (21st hall) (-4102, 117, -8511) (e)
Word - Windflower
Scrambled - oWrnfilwde
Solutions to the clues:
Clue 1: The full quote is ‘Gandalf the Grey caught like a fly in a spider's treacherous web!’ which was said by Saruman after he first used the Palantir. This is designed to lead you to Orthanc where Gandalf was imprisoned by Saruman.
Clue 2: In old English, ‘Gladden’ (glaedene), is another name for “flag” or “iris”. During the War of the Ring, Saruman sent forces (a search party) to check the Gladden Fields for the one ring, but he was disturbed to find that Sauron was also searching the area.
Clue 3: 1590 of the Second Age is when the rings were forged in Eregion.
Clue 4: Following the Battle of Azanulbizar, the Dwarves suffered casualties over 50%. Dwarven custom was to bury their dead in stone tombs, but due to the significant losses and the threat of Orcs they had no choice but to burn them on pyres.
Clue 5: OH BABY A TRIPLE (three). The numbers correspond to letters, giving you the word Horn. Put them together and you get “Thee Horn(s)”. Old English for this is “Thrihyrne”, the mountain with three peaks overlooking Helm’s Deep.
Clue 6: This clue uses the first line of each verse of “Into the West” written by Fran Walsh. It is a lament for those who have sailed across the Sundering Seas (or the great sea). This implies you search where the elves, Bilbo and Gandalf finally departed, in the Grey Havens.
Clue 7: The first line is parts of the crossed out section of the Book of Westmarch, with name omitted. The clue can be found where Bilbo ended up “seventeen years later” (when Frodo came to Rivendell after Bilbo retired there) in the Hall of Fire.
Clue 8: A highly useful tool is designed to indicate an object, and the second part of the clue refers to “fell” and “hawks” (the latter forming part of “hell-hawks” which is another name for fell beasts). The useful tool you are looking for is Legolas’ bow which he used to slay a fell beast, given to him by Galadriel at the harbour in Lothlorien.
Clue 9: The first part of the clue should lead you to the definition of ‘eucatastrophe’. In the book, the field of Cormallen is where the song “Long live the Halflings!” was sung, honouring the ring bearers. Tolkien personally regarded this as the eucatastrophe of The Lord of the Rings. The hint provided is a line in the song.
Clue 10: These words form part of the poem “The world was young, the mountains green” (the Song of Durin) which was sung by Gimli when the fellowship was travelling through Moria.
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