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Only one person managed to get the correct answer to the ring hunt this month, so I thought it might be fun to share with you the solution to the perplexing puzzler:
CLUE 1: Shantih Shantih Shantih. DA. C30 Purg
Shantih Shantih Shantih was supposed to lead you to the last line of T.S Eliot's masterpiece The Wasteland. In that last stanza he makes several quotes and references. One of the quotations is from a certain Dante Aligheri. DA. With that knowledge, C30 Purg obviously stands for Canto 30 of Purgatorio. With this knowledge, you should have read Canto 30, and understood the basic plot points. Canto 30 is the point at which Virgil has to leave Dante at the doors of heaven, and Beatrice becomes Dante's guide in paradise. Now the eagle eyed of you might have noticed the parallels in this to the moment in the Fellowship where Gandalf (Virgil) has to leave the Fellowship (Dante) and cannot leave Moria (Hell + Purgatory) and progress to Lothlorien (Heaven).
CLUE 2: Emperor Trajan, Cato and Ripheus. Not Virgil/Gandalf.
This clue was supposed to help make the connection of Virgil and Gandalf by listing the three roman emperors who managed to make it into heaven. Neither Virgil nor Gandalf managed to make it.
CLUE 3: “Upon all the living and the dead”. Take one step back.
This clue was intended as an alternative method of getting to the answer. "Upon all the living and the dead" is the last line from The Dead from James Joyce's collection of short stories Dubliners. "Take one step back" was code to go to the beginning of the sentence.
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
Key words snow. This whole sentence should have also conjured up the famous shot of the snow falling on Gandalf after having defeated the Balrog on the top of Zirakzigil or Durin's Tower.
CLUE 4: “tanto ch'i' vidi de le cose belle che porta 'l ciel, per un pertugio tondo. E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.”
An easy one to finish off. This is the final lines of Dante's Inferno, and roughy translates to:
"Till on our view the beautiful lights of heav'n
Dawn'd through a circular opening in the cave:
Thus issuing we again beheld the stars."
This should have immediately sparked links to Gandalf climbing onto to Durin's Tower and seeing the stars. Simple connection
Congratulations to @Green_Giant and @ManonGames for getting the answer, and to the rest of y'all, get gud.
Thanks for taking part in my game,
Mortal
Only one person managed to get the correct answer to the ring hunt this month, so I thought it might be fun to share with you the solution to the perplexing puzzler:
CLUE 1: Shantih Shantih Shantih. DA. C30 Purg
Shantih Shantih Shantih was supposed to lead you to the last line of T.S Eliot's masterpiece The Wasteland. In that last stanza he makes several quotes and references. One of the quotations is from a certain Dante Aligheri. DA. With that knowledge, C30 Purg obviously stands for Canto 30 of Purgatorio. With this knowledge, you should have read Canto 30, and understood the basic plot points. Canto 30 is the point at which Virgil has to leave Dante at the doors of heaven, and Beatrice becomes Dante's guide in paradise. Now the eagle eyed of you might have noticed the parallels in this to the moment in the Fellowship where Gandalf (Virgil) has to leave the Fellowship (Dante) and cannot leave Moria (Hell + Purgatory) and progress to Lothlorien (Heaven).
CLUE 2: Emperor Trajan, Cato and Ripheus. Not Virgil/Gandalf.
This clue was supposed to help make the connection of Virgil and Gandalf by listing the three roman emperors who managed to make it into heaven. Neither Virgil nor Gandalf managed to make it.
CLUE 3: “Upon all the living and the dead”. Take one step back.
This clue was intended as an alternative method of getting to the answer. "Upon all the living and the dead" is the last line from The Dead from James Joyce's collection of short stories Dubliners. "Take one step back" was code to go to the beginning of the sentence.
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
Key words snow. This whole sentence should have also conjured up the famous shot of the snow falling on Gandalf after having defeated the Balrog on the top of Zirakzigil or Durin's Tower.
CLUE 4: “tanto ch'i' vidi de le cose belle che porta 'l ciel, per un pertugio tondo. E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.”
An easy one to finish off. This is the final lines of Dante's Inferno, and roughy translates to:
"Till on our view the beautiful lights of heav'n
Dawn'd through a circular opening in the cave:
Thus issuing we again beheld the stars."
This should have immediately sparked links to Gandalf climbing onto to Durin's Tower and seeing the stars. Simple connection
Congratulations to @Green_Giant and @ManonGames for getting the answer, and to the rest of y'all, get gud.
Thanks for taking part in my game,
Mortal