The Riddle Game

[kaelln]

A horn?

[Cleddyf]

yep

[Rhys ap Ieuan]

My understanding is that the later spelling was what Tolkien considered correct, though I don't know where the earlier one came from. Also, as Mark Twain probably never said, "Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination."


Mind if I toss one on the fire?
Scarlet wanderer,
old beyond ancient.
Child of Telperion,
guide the First.
And light the path of war.

This one was Carnil - meant to be the analogy of Mars.

[Cleddyf]

A lonely wanderer, wounded with iron, I am smitten with war-blades, sated with strife,
Worn with the sword-edge; I have seen many battles, Much hazardous fighting, oft without hope
Of comforts or help in the carnage of war Ere I perish and fall in the fighting of men.
The leavings of hammers, the handiwork of smiths, Batter and bite me, hard-eged and sharp;
The brunt of the battle I am doomed to endure. In all the folk-stead no leech could I find
With wort or simple to heal my wounds; But day and night with the deadly blows
The marks of the war-blades double and deepen.

[Alderic]

A shield?

[Ringulf]

An anvil?

[Cleddyf]

yep its a shield

[Alderic]

Um...what have I got in my pocket?
Nah. I'll just hand this off to the next person, I've got nothing.

[Mirimaran]

LOL that was my riddle heheheh

[Ernildir]

I am a keeper of lore,
Tales I oft am telling,
Wisdom is in my eye,
A house of chimneys is my dwelling.

[Erucheb]

Gilfanon?

[Ernildir]

Gilfanon?

Right. Well done.

[Erucheb]

The last line was what did it. I recognized it from the Lost Tales.

[Mirimaran]

I am remembered by the first cry, and forgotten at the last tear.
Some hold me in honor, others pass me by.
Gifts mark me, while all I give is age.
What am I?

[Ringulf]

Birth/birthday I know that is two guesses but it is in the same vein.