04-27-2010, 09:39 PM | #941 | |
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Nice little rhythm with that riddle, too. Nice work!
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04-27-2010, 09:40 PM | #942 | |
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(Note: I'm joking. Your riddles are PLENTY hard.) We need to take turns and quit cross-posting, huh?
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04-27-2010, 09:41 PM | #943 | |
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04-27-2010, 09:42 PM | #944 |
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It's not the book, the Hobbit? That was his first ME book, and it preceded LOTR, then all the other histories that he wrote, and some that were even published posthumously.
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04-27-2010, 09:49 PM | #945 | |
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First set out to entertain, -Tolkien wrote the hobbit just as a children's story a dwarf work unfurled, -"dwarf" work, short book but it grew taller and taller, -grew into numerous books about ME little hole became world. -from the first words of the Hobbit, "in a little hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit" the words Tolkien just jotted down one day
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04-27-2010, 10:03 PM | #946 |
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Here's another one:
Flowing through towering white trees, Lamenting a loss, or so it seemed, The singers really sharing a pure, bright light To be shed where the trees grew far less white.
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04-27-2010, 10:05 PM | #947 | |
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The hobbit tales first began as bedtime stories for his children, I think. Of course his first story was of Gondolin, which grew into The Silmarilion. |
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04-27-2010, 10:07 PM | #948 |
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Ooops! Midge beat me to it. (but I still solved it - so nyahhh)
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04-27-2010, 10:12 PM | #950 | |
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Hobbits is too general an answer for this riddle. Please try again! ..... too easy eh?, hrrumph! Ha! Oh yeah, I almost forgot............ |
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04-27-2010, 10:29 PM | #951 | |
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These are all children of Samwise Gamgee and Rose Cotton (the first 6 children). To think there were 7 more!
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04-27-2010, 10:43 PM | #952 | |
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Okay, now try this one: A gift to Dwarves, yet spurned them by, teeth that cannot bite. As time went by it came to be the cause of bitter enmity. |
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04-27-2010, 10:46 PM | #953 |
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Scatha's teeth. Fram's gift to the dwarves...
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04-27-2010, 10:51 PM | #954 |
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Actually, no, but close! "Flowing" is a play on words...but Lothlorien is the setting.
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04-27-2010, 10:53 PM | #955 |
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Re-posting this so you don't have to scroll all the way up:
Flowing through towering white trees, Lamenting a loss, or so it seemed, The singers really sharing a pure, bright light To be shed where the trees grew far less white.
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04-27-2010, 10:56 PM | #956 | |
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The elves singing of the death of Gandalf???? White trees has me confused until you said Lothlorien..
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04-27-2010, 10:59 PM | #957 |
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Correct!
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Wow - lots of riddling posts today. This is great! Keith K: maybe my mind is just not active enough for me to be the solver I used to be.
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04-27-2010, 11:22 PM | #959 |
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Another off the top of my head:
Standing solemn and tall In a forest now small Slaughtered by a White Hand Whose power none could withstand.
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04-27-2010, 11:44 PM | #960 |
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This is officially my first attempt at a Tolkien riddle...
Two heroes this blade has known Malice and dread it has sown One blade that could iron cut Stabbing upwards from a rut Enemy’s end it brought with pain Wielders bane, wielders bane
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