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Posted: **Wed May 20, 2020 10:04 pm**

I'll take it! I was aiming for yarn or wool, but wool is after all a type of fur. Your turn @Durien .

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2020 10:32 pm**

Eeek...I like solving riddles, but I'm not so good at creating them. Here we go:

What has a mouth but cannot drink,
Is always empty but can be filled
Take years or moments to grow or shrink,
Sometimes hot and sometimes chilled?

Posted: **Wed May 20, 2020 10:53 pm**

Dormant volcano?

Posted: **Thu May 21, 2020 3:19 am**

I was going for cave, but dormant volcano seems to fit too, so accepted!

Posted: **Thu May 21, 2020 6:51 am**

*sneaks in with a tag* @Dimcairien Luiniel *sneaks out*

Posted: **Thu May 21, 2020 8:40 am**

Yikes Menolly, that was a tough one! The living room clue had me picturing different objects around a room, and misled me from the fact that it had come from a sheep's back! :smiley8: Well done.

Posted: **Thu May 21, 2020 9:01 pm**

Erg, I like riddles, but am not the best at coming up with them, so here’s a classic.

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2020 4:55 am**

Ha I'll have to resist the urge to google this! Just one is my guess, since I think I was the only one going to St. Ives when I met the man and wives and sacks with cats and kits.

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2020 5:13 am**

@Menolly Yep, you've got it.

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2020 5:25 am**

Not going to lie, I did some multiplying by sevens math there before I thought about the turn of phrase.

I capture moments of time gone by
Holding them still in the blink of an eye
I used to be balanced on a stand
Now I can be held in just one hand

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2020 8:33 am**

A camera? :smiley8:

Posted: **Fri May 22, 2020 11:38 pm**

Yes indeed! Your turn @Moriel.

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2020 2:40 am**

Brought hither by foul weather
But appearing only in sun,
I wear a coat of many colors
Though really, I have none.
If you seek to find me you will find that you cannot,
For I am ever shifting, never sitting in one spot.

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2020 2:46 am**

Wouldst that be a rainbow?

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2020 2:51 am**

You got it @Frost! Your turn.

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2020 3:02 am**

Some call me wisdom
some call me death
I say don't call me late to the battlefield

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2020 3:06 am**

Athena?

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2020 3:11 am**

You're on the right path, but not quite

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2020 3:20 am**

Freya then? I was torn

Posted: **Sat May 23, 2020 3:22 am**

closer! but not quite so grand

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2020 2:41 am**

The Valkyrie?

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2020 5:14 pm**

Still a little too grand, think more down to earth :smiley10:

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2020 8:08 pm**

Posted: **Sun May 24, 2020 8:14 pm**

Bad Frosty! I may have not done a good job leading with the hints. I will say it's not a specific person and its more folklore than mythology

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2020 2:08 pm**

A raven? Though, uh, that wouldn't be very "down to earth".

Posted: **Mon May 25, 2020 2:22 pm**

there we go! @Aerlinn for the win! I meant down to earth as opposed to gods and mythical beings

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2020 3:20 am**

Oh, dear. Now to the hard part...well, I tried.

Flattened mountains, legends and keys
In pockets and hands, on walls and cheese.

(sorry, just wanted a rhyme

)

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2020 4:43 am**

Mmm, cheese. Tasty tasty cheese. I want some cheese...no wait, I mean, is it a map? (Mmm...cheese)

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2020 4:52 am**

@Menolly Yes! Hmmm, I'll have to work on my riddling skills. Your turn!

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2020 5:06 am**

'Scuse me, I need some elevenses with a cheese course...ok, I shamelessly plagiarized the first half of this one, and then kept going.

Alive without breath
As cold as death
Never thirsty, ever drinking
All in mail never clinking
Always seeking, ever smelling
Hunger driven, never quelling
Tales of me frighten all who dare
But I never intend to scare

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2020 5:13 am**

Shark?

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2020 5:48 am**

Correct! Too easy on my part, but I enjoyed taking a canon riddle and adding to it. Your turn @Dimcairien Luiniel.

Posted: **Tue May 26, 2020 11:27 pm**

Ok, here goes. Probably my first time attempting to write my own riddle.

Keep me fed
And I will rise
I may be sour
But sweet is inside.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2020 1:15 am**

Yeast?

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2020 4:01 am**

Close enough. I was going for sourdough starter, but it is a kind of yeast. You're up @Arothir

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2020 4:13 am**

On fire, and not fully hot
It is iced and yet not cold
A glorious thought
For young and old
To share its pieces together

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2020 9:45 am**

I stared at this for at least a full minute and then my brain went...cinnamon bun? Might be real off the mark but that's all I got.

Posted: **Wed May 27, 2020 10:50 pm**

Close! But not quite, similar realm, though.

Posted: **Thu May 28, 2020 3:30 pm**

molten chocolate lava...birthday cake?

Posted: **Fri May 29, 2020 3:22 am**

Birthday cake is correct @Aerlinn! I was aiming specifically for cake, but a more specific answer will certainly suffice.

Posted: **Fri May 29, 2020 3:45 am**

Aerlinn wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 3:30 pm molten chocolate lava...birthday cake?

So you could say, the cake was not a lie?

(Bad joke.)

Posted: **Fri May 29, 2020 2:30 pm**

Oh man, I haven't seen that meme in a while @Lúthien Tinúviel

Hullo, by the way!

Uhhh, here goes again..

Perhaps underwater, perhaps in a box,
Scattered or gathered,
Black and white, amongst others.

Posted: **Fri May 29, 2020 2:44 pm**

Pearls?

Posted: **Sat May 30, 2020 1:08 am**

Er, that does seem to fit rather well, but was not what I had in mind. "In water" may have been a better choice of words than "underwater".

Posted: **Sat May 30, 2020 1:08 am**

Photographs?

Posted: **Sat May 30, 2020 6:01 am**

Hmmm...more natural than photographs, but more everyday than pearls

It starts in the ground.

Posted: **Sat May 30, 2020 6:23 am**

Hmm it seems trickier now!

Could it be roses?

Posted: **Sat May 30, 2020 10:43 am**

Closer!

Posted: **Sat May 30, 2020 2:46 pm**

Is it the flowers by Minas Morgul? They're white, but in a very black (shadowy and evil) place. They're also right by water.

"Wide flats lay on either bank, shadowy meads filled with pale white flowers." Stairs of Cirith Ungol, TTT

Posted: **Sat May 30, 2020 3:25 pm**

Hmmm, wandered a bit further away there. It is mentioned in the books, but not specific to Middle-earth. Possibly (no promises!), it only ever comes up at Bag End.

I thought map was too easy and may have swung around to too vague with this one. Sorry!

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