Quote Originally Posted by elvyen View Post
ok back at last..
WOW SL! you are cranking out the riddles, how do you come up with them so fast? amazing, and all good ones too

so yeah, my guess for your latest, after an initial reading, is Brandy Hall
How do I come up with them so fast? It's easy -- I just slack off on the work I should actually be doing. (I hope my boss doesn't see this.)

Anyway, Brandy Hall is the correct answer. One thing I learned while putting this riddle together is that "Gorhendad," as in Gorhendad Oldbuck -- the Hobbit who first started delving Brandy Hall -- translates as "great-grandfather."

The last line, by the way, refers to Merry's expansion of the library after he became Master of the Hall.

SL