Supplemental post for T_W: Annoying decoding activity, play along!

[huinare]

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 I might 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.

Comments

[huinare.livejournal.com]

So glad you enjoyed it! And hope you didn't run into too many errors in the decoding of it, I found at least one...my talents lie more in making the things up, not in executing them.

I've had Ori crack the code, not quite sure how he did it. I picture him as a learnèd and clever fellow, so I suppose he could have known something about these matters.

Thanks for your comment, I've learned about Vigenère ciphers today! Cryptography is actually a subject I know precious little about officially, though I have the proper sort of inclinations to make codes up. I think I did one a long time back.

And I am very impressed with your writing and encrypting in Quenya. =D
And trying to recall the ciphering instance in Mirages, thinking it was in the Númenor bit?

Ah not to worry, I doubt motley!Sauron is going anywhere. My brain is pinging around a bunch of ideas anyway, and I should probably purge a couple before it overloads.