THE HINTS- VITAL TO SUCCESS

[J Smith]

I guess I'm a 'poem purist' because I haven't read any of the books. Anyway I mentioned this in another thread a while back but there's so many things in the book that could be a potential hint. IMO the actual hints (in TTOTC) are not readily apparent or useful unless you already know the physical location of each clue in the poem. FF obviously has this knowledge so he's overstating how useful the 'hints' are to searchers who have no knowledge of the location(s) in the poem.