The Riddle Game
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Ungoliant! Why can't I remember that? It wasn't that long ago that I read the Sil so I still kind of remembered it.
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Rising before the sun
Too often prayed for
Tears when there's none
Always wanting more
Beaten it gets up
Cut it doesn't bleed
Never kicked around
Eats not, but it feeds
Too often prayed for
Tears when there's none
Always wanting more
Beaten it gets up
Cut it doesn't bleed
Never kicked around
Eats not, but it feeds
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that's a hard one
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Hmmm,
....an egg?
....an egg?
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the '' beaten it gets up'' part reminds me of one of the icecream logo things ''often licked, never beaten'
so.... ice cream?
so.... ice cream?
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Neither egg, nor ice cream, but you're in the right direction !Cleddyf wrote:the '' beaten it gets up'' part reminds me of one of the icecream logo things ''often licked, never beaten'
so.... ice cream?
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I'll try my hand at this riddle game for what it's worth.
Yeast?
Yeast?
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Pretty much, the answer is bread!Ranger of Arthedain wrote:I'll try my hand at this riddle game for what it's worth.
Yeast?
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That was a good one, Pete.
Next riddle:
I am tallest of the three,
Vision can be found in me:
Ever watching -- gazing Westward,
O'er the ever calling sea.
Next riddle:
I am tallest of the three,
Vision can be found in me:
Ever watching -- gazing Westward,
O'er the ever calling sea.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
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the bit about gazing westward over the sea makes me think of the palantir which looked only over the sea towards numenor,Ernildhir wrote:That was a good one, Pete.
Next riddle:
I am tallest of the three,
Vision can be found in me:
Ever watching -- gazing Westward,
O'er the ever calling sea.
but there where 7 palantir not 3,
unless it is of the 3 palentir which remained after the war of the ring, the minas tirith one, the isenguard one and the one that looked toward the west
so, elostirion?
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Elostirion is correct. The "three" referred to the three towers of the Emyn Beraid. Well done.Cleddyf wrote:the bit about gazing westward over the sea makes me think of the palantir which looked only over the sea towards numenor,Ernildhir wrote:That was a good one, Pete.
Next riddle:
I am tallest of the three,
Vision can be found in me:
Ever watching -- gazing Westward,
O'er the ever calling sea.
but there where 7 palantir not 3,
unless it is of the 3 palentir which remained after the war of the ring, the minas tirith one, the isenguard one and the one that looked toward the west
so, elostirion?
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
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yay!
In marble walls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
In marble walls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
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Sounds like either Gondolin or an egg.Cleddyf wrote:yay!
In marble walls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
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yep its an egg
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In former days my father and mother, Abandoned me dead, lacking breath
Or life or being. Then one began, A kinswoman kind, to care for and love me;
Covered me with her clothing, wrapped me in her raiment, With the same affection she felt for her own;
Until by the law of my life's shaping, Under alien bosom I quickened with breath.
My foster mother fed me thereafter, Until I grew sturdy and strengthened for flight.
Then of her dear ones, of daughters and sons, She had the fewer for what she did
Or life or being. Then one began, A kinswoman kind, to care for and love me;
Covered me with her clothing, wrapped me in her raiment, With the same affection she felt for her own;
Until by the law of my life's shaping, Under alien bosom I quickened with breath.
My foster mother fed me thereafter, Until I grew sturdy and strengthened for flight.
Then of her dear ones, of daughters and sons, She had the fewer for what she did