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LOTR: The Dead Marshes Traditional Cache

Hidden : 9/18/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Part of the Lord of the Rings series.

This is a stand alone cache but may contain information that will enable you to find Mount Doom.


The Dead Marshes

Dreary and wearisome. Cold, clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long forgotten summers. --- From Passage of the Marshes - The Two Towers

Gollum led Frodo and Sam through the marshes. The journey was marked by lights that danced about and candles which Gollum called "candles of corpses". Those who become entranced by these lights and attempt to touch the bodies drown in the water and go down to join the dead. It seems that the bodies only appear in the water when the lights are lit. Frodo became entranced by these lights and tried to reach out and touch the faces of the dead at the bottom of the marshes. Sam broke him out of his trance and Gollum told them that the dead could not be touched. While passing through the marshes, a Black Rider on a Fell beast passed overhead.


The rest of the LOTR series is not far behind but as each cache is a stand alone they are being published separately.

A bookmark of all the caches available can be found to the right of the page.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Unjgubea

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)