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Supplemental post for T_W: Annoying decoding activity, play along!
Because I've been taking Tolkien_Weekly's 'writing' drabble prompts terribly literally, the prompt of 'code' necessitated certain creative endeavors.
The drabble, found here, contains an encoded note taken off the body of a slain Orc messenger, something resembling a code key, and leaves the note undecoded. Readers can therefore interact with the drabble and decode the note. O HUZZAH.
Or, as I'm anticipating, most people will rather just know right away what the note says, so I'm inserting a link to that at the end of the drabble.
PS - please bring any mistakes observed to my attention! I'm way better at creating the code than actually applying it, so Imight almost certainly have some errors.
Go.W. ugex02av09og Y2988awfik19ot k03uve jut0eyl ur05ufe98o. Uvu aqvewt07ifw24oga, h09ood02aqj pi1402uqhan00ovk yk12oq ix10ian1400udn04o. Etef-h08enom f1929oq q17e n08eqj62ote r24uviv wak2988o r07een v1924uh24onbo; t09os03iovaw f98eiqv00one.
D. T. advised Watcher has grown apace. As instructed, feeding manflesh when available. Orc-folk can no longer pass the pool safely; request counsel.
The drabble, found here, contains an encoded note taken off the body of a slain Orc messenger, something resembling a code key, and leaves the note undecoded. Readers can therefore interact with the drabble and decode the note. O HUZZAH.
Or, as I'm anticipating, most people will rather just know right away what the note says, so I'm inserting a link to that at the end of the drabble.
PS - please bring any mistakes observed to my attention! I'm way better at creating the code than actually applying it, so I
Go.W. ugex02av09og Y2988awfik19ot k03uve jut0eyl ur05ufe98o. Uvu aqvewt07ifw24oga, h09ood02aqj pi1402uqhan00ovk yk12oq ix10ian1400udn04o. Etef-h08enom f1929oq q17e n08eqj62ote r24uviv wak2988o r07een v1924uh24onbo; t09os03iovaw f98eiqv00one.
D. T. advised Watcher has grown apace. As instructed, feeding manflesh when available. Orc-folk can no longer pass the pool safely; request counsel.
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- Erulisse (one L)
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I've read a lot about cryptography, did most of the challenges in "The Code Book" at the time. So of course I decoded your Orcish message, how could I not? Clever, including the dumb padding vowels to make the Caesar coding a bit less obvious.
I wonder what method the dwarvish spymasters used to crack it. I imagine they tried the Caesar shifts and noticed there were words in there, then realised the extra vowels were always following a pattern.
For a long unfinished Gondor fic I never posted, I devised a possible adaptation of the Vigenère cipher for tengwar, including tehtar. Now *** geek alert *** I translated the messages to Quenya to the best of my ability (poor at best) and then encoded them. That was fun. And in my Eönwë fic, certain conspirators use Vigenère disks to encode their messages. So Again, let me say I love this!
PS. Haven't forgotten about Sauron of many colours, just RL keeping me busy.
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I suppose that sort of matches Sauron's attitude to Shelob, doesn't it?
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