Answers and Explanations to the 2025 Easter Egg Hunt
Thank you all very much for participating this year, here are the winners!
Thank you all very much for participating this year, here are the winners!
- Green_Giant
- Aylalya
- D3rr3x
- LVIMDOESGAMES
- Spoonsforthewin
- Kiwipedia
- Zyploy_74794
- Vexus
Clue 1:
Seek for the Sword that was broken.
Answer: Rivendell (d) (3662, 62, -4484)
Clue 2:
As seen on the iNel.
Answer: Entwash (i) (6523, -41, 1943)
Clue 3:
A lonely place with only fruits to keep you company. Don’t die of dehydration out there.
Answer: Melon Wreck (t) (-418, -30, 5892)
Clue 4:
A fair stream, or a fair river?
Answer: Linhir (n) (4780, -28, 5455)
Clue 5:
1957 "Carnival of Books". P. 210.
Answer: Mirkwood (s) (8846, 95, -6808)
Clue 6:
Abandoned by its King for greater destiny,
To save one realm, leaving the other,
Faded memories now remain.
Answer: Iron Hills (n) (13668, 87, -7199)
Clue 7:
He tried his chances with the Ruffian’s during our time.
The chèvrefeuille was thus deceived.
Answer: Western Gate of Bree (P) (-1814, -32, -4474)
Clue 8:
Search the edges of the stygian gulf for this egg, beware the pitfalls.
Answer: Moria East Gate (I) (2960, 131, -2215) (mainworld)
Clue 9:
...ev'I yas dluoc ,eno siht no evren ym tsol yllaeR yaw eht yb sdrawkcab nettirw si eulc sihT
Answer: Nobottle (a) (-4923, -42, -4694)
Clue 10:
‘Knowledge giver, can you give me a hand with this clue?’
Answer: Khand (b) (16151, -24, 7403)
Clue 11:
Map showing the small streams next to Windich.
Answer: Windich (n) (824, -1, 4509)
Clue 12:
Number 2: Second Track, Disc One.
Answer: Frodo and Sam’s Emyn Muil Path ® (7711, -22, 594)
Clue 13:
The art of “_______”.
Answer: Sam’s House (h) (-4076, -37, -4387)
Clue 14:
Said
Answer: Rhun (a) (15866, -40, -1735)
Clue 15:
At least more than 3 [blank] away and much nearer than the Dimholt (for example).
Approx. 3.00579. Could use a football term.
Answer: Udul (u) (-2572, 6, 2855)
Clue 16:
Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry "Hold, hold!"
Answer: Minas Tirith Citadel (i) (7394, 130, 4081)
Solutions to the clues:
Word - Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja)
Scrambled - ditnsnPIabnrhaui
Solutions:
Clue 1: "Seek for the Sword that was broken:" was a rhyme that appeared in dreams to Faramir and later his brother Boromir. The second line of the rhyme mentions Imlandris, the Sindarin translation of Rivendell. However, the first line alone should have been enough to solve this first one.
Clue 2: The word in italics unscrambles to ‘Nile’, as in the River Nile. At its mouth, there is a delta. The largest delta on MCME can be found at the Entwash.
Clue 3: Our first server lore question. The latter half of the clue should indicate an island (somewhere without drinkable water), with the former giving a hint to the name of the location - Melon Wreck.
Clue 4: Fair stream is the Sindarin for Linhir. The second part of the clue is designed to throw you off and search along the whole river.
Clue 5: The extract you should have found from Tolkien was "I put in the spiders largely because this was, you remember, primarily written for my children (at least I had them in mind), and one of my sons in particular dislikes spiders with a great intensity. I did it to thoroughly frighten him and it did!". The spiders Bilbo encounters in the Hobbit are found in Mirkwood.
Clue 6: Lord Dain Ironfoot led his soldiers to the Battle of the Five Armies in 2941. After their victory, he left the Iron Hills and relocated to Erebor. Following this, the Iron Hills passed out of history.
Clue 7: The word Honeysuckle is key here. Its etymology links to the Goatleaf Family. At one point, Harry Goatleaf watched the Western gate of Bree, where you will find this egg.
Clue 8: The word stygian is a literary synonym for “black”, implying you search the “black gulf”. In Noldorin, this is glossed as Moria. The word “pitfalls” is a red herring, implying you search the chasms. Rather, the key is you should search the edges of Moria, hence you will find the egg near the Eastern Gate.
Clue 9: Reversing this text gives you “This clue is written backwards by the way. Really lost my nerve on this one, could say I've…”. You can fill the end of the sentence with “bottled it”. As someone with no bottle, I decided to hide the clue in Nobottle.
Clue 10: By combining the only capital letter in this sentence (K) with ‘hand’ gives you the answer: Khand.
Clue 11: You should have been able to match the streams on the dynmap to Windich.
Clue 12: Number 2 indicates book/movie 2 (The Two Towers), and the second part of the clue indicates which track and which disc you can find the clue on. Locating this will give you the “Elven Rope” soundtrack, which can then be used to find Frodo and Sam’s path on the Emyn Muil and more specifically where they use the rope.
Clue 13: This personal favourite from Billy Bragg, a song about the Diggers of England (look them up if you are interested), should entice you in the art of digging! In Tolkien terms, ‘digging’ represents the Old Hobbitish form of Delfing. This translation of ‘Delving’, the fictional village told in Samwise Gamgee’s nursery rhyme Perry-the-Winkle, may have been the fictionalisation of Michel Delving. However, to further delude you at this point in the hunt, I chose to hide the egg in Sam’s house rather than the Shire’s capital.
Clue 14: One word clues are always tricky, and this one certainly requires multiple implied connections. Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’, a critique of the West’s view of the ‘Orient’ or the Far East, may be helpful but goes beyond the scope of this clue. At its most basic sense, the literal definition of ‘Orient’ as ‘The East’ should indicate Rhun.
Clue 15: You can uncover the blank by uncovering that 3.00579 is the modern day equivalent in nautical miles for a Legua marítima (1840s Spain until the 20th century). The second part of this question requires lore on Agar, which was “three leagues away” from the shores of the Great Sea. Dimholt is used for reference to indicate something between Agar and Dimholt (pretty much a straight line). The final part of this clue relating to football is meant to indicate how Agar and Udul are rival towns, to narrow the options down further. There are only a handful of places in between, one of them being Udul, where you will find this difficult egg.
Clue 16: This famous passage from Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5) depicts the entrance of King Duncan to Macbeth’s castle. Macbeth’s speech, beginning “The Raven himself is hoarse” should lead to when Peregrin Took became a Guard of the Citadel. His garments depicted a “high-crowned helm with small raven-wings on either side". If you have read Macbeth, the murder of Dunan (spoilers, apologies) should also indicate somewhere without a King, if you were struggling to figure out the Raven. Therefore, this final clue is located in the Citadel of Minas Tirith.
See you soon for another hunt!
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