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Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:53 am
by kaelln
A horn?
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:39 am
by Cleddyf
yep
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Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:09 am
by Rhys ap Ieuan
mcarson wrote: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.
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:50 am
by 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.
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:05 pm
by Alderic
A shield?
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:28 am
by Ringulf
An anvil?
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:12 am
by Cleddyf
yep its a shield
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:59 am
by Alderic
Um...what have I got in my pocket?
Nah. I'll just hand this off to the next person, I've got nothing.
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:54 pm
by Mirimaran
LOL that was my riddle heheheh
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:28 pm
by Ernildir
I am a keeper of lore,
Tales I oft am telling,
Wisdom is in my eye,
A house of chimneys is my dwelling.
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:53 pm
by Erucheb
Gilfanon?
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:41 pm
by Ernildir
Erucheb wrote:Gilfanon?
Right. Well done.
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:32 pm
by Erucheb
The last line was what did it. I recognized it from the Lost Tales.
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Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:36 pm
by 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?
Re: The Riddle Game
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:57 pm
by Ringulf
Birth/birthday I know that is two guesses but it is in the same vein.