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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 11:17
so what now, darqdean? your "obvious" solution does not work (if it did I would have found it days ago, because I already googled for that). perhaps you come up with the answer now


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 11:21
It's Nimrod, Jean. It is the name of a hunter from Edward Elgar's composition The Enigma Variations. Dean, nice one. I was completely stumped
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 12:32
I should have known that; since I am both familiar with Elgar and with Greek mythology Embarrassed


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 13:11

Nimrod is correct.

What?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 13:32
I pass my turn, I'm too lazy to think up a clue at the moment
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 13:39
my problem was I do not know a band called "Nimrod"


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 14:05
I don't either, and I didn't know the Enigma Variations, I just googled what he told me to google
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 14:15
I wasn't posting here yet, but I'm lurking the thread from the beginning. A great game!

Next riddle, please! Anyone?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 14:19
ok, I have one:

iived his last years in the tower room of a room


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 15:19
Jon Anderson? Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2007 at 15:44
Gilgamesh?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 07:38
No, wrong. Clue: Have a look at the "in a tower room of a room". A room of a room - strange.
And I'll give another clue: He was mad for the last 36 years of his life.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 10:34
Still not Jon Anderson, eh? LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 10:37
Syd Barret?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 10:44
H.P. Lovecraft?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 12:17
No, still wrong. I'll give another clue: His main work is about a Greek Titan's letters to his lover and his good friend. The name of the good friend even means "Good Friend" (or rather "beautiful friend") and resembles the title of a German movie from 1939. The title of that movie is NOT in German, but means "beautiful friend" in another language.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 16:13
Hoelderlin ?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 19:50
I retract the question mark. Hoelderlin was mad for the last 36 years of his life, lived in an attic and wrote "Hyperion".
 
The new riddle -- circumnavigator with a relative of his implement.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 20:23

Magellan - but he didn't circumnavigate the globe and it doesn't fit the rest of the clue, so I go for ... Mandrake

What?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2007 at 20:28
Neither Magellan nor Mandrake is (are???) a correct answer. (Mandrake stands for Francis Drake, I presume?)
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