Riddle of the Week

Riddle of the Week: Riddles in the Dark

Difficulty level: Moderate

Michael Stillwell
 
By Jay Bennett

This week we decided to change it up a bit and revisit some classic riddles that you may have heard in your childhood. These are wordplay riddles, each its own little ditty, unlike our normal logic puzzles. Here are the Riddles in the Dark.

PROBLEMS

Gollum: What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up, up it goes, and yet, never grows?

Bilbo: Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.

Gollum: Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.

Bilbo: An eye in a blue face saw an eye in a green face. "That eye is like to this eye," said the first eye. "But in low place, not in high place."

Gollum: It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter.

Bilbo: A box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Gollum: Alive without breath, as cold as death, never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail never clinking.

Bilbo: No-legs lay on one-leg, two legs sat near on three legs, four legs got some.

Gollum: This thing all things devours: birds, beasts, trees, flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel; grinds hard stones to meal; slays king, ruins town, and beats high mountain down.

Bilbo: What have I got in my pocket?

HINT

Read The Hobbit.