good idea

[Sauganast]

I got this sweet idea for this message board, and I think everyone will like it. But I am not going to say what it is yet. I will however require the assistance of an admin or mod.

[Gilthalion]

Why?

[Sauganast]

because otherwise it will not work. Things would get a little hectic and you wouldn't really be able to tell what's going on.

[bmilder]

Well, I'm an admin :p

E-mail me: bmilder@tolkientrail.com

[Sauganast]

Will do, thanks a lot!

[Sauganast]

Actually, I am not gonna e-mail you, cuz I never go to check my e-mail. So I am just gonna tell you my idea. We should have riddle contest in this forum. People could take turns, the next person doesn't get to go till the previous riddle has been solved, the solver can then post their own riddle.

[dunedain lady]

That would be a very good idea! I know lots of riddles :-)

[RovingTurtle]

Sounds good I'm all for it too :)

[Gilthalion]

Alrighty then, in honor of Bilbo, here is the first one:

What have I got in my pocket?

I'll even let each of you have three guesses?

(And I promise not to cheat! The answer is the contents of my pocket at the moment of this post. It will not change.)

[Shanamir Duntak]

Car/home keys!

[cee2lee2]

A proper hobbit always has a handkerchief in his pocket.

[Sauganast]

money!

[Fat middle]

nothing! you're in underpants :D

[Eruve]

String or nothing.

Air.


The One Ring.

[Gilthalion]

Air doesn't count, and string or nothing is a double guess!

And all of the rest of you are wrong, too!

I am a hobbit in a big hurry and I do not have my pocket handkerchief, though I wish I did!

I'm not Bilbo or Frodo and nobody trusted me to carry that One Ring around for some reason or other!

Muhoohooheeheehaha!





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If you keep guessing, I'll keep checking back and I'll edit this post to let you know if you're right!

HINT: It is not the One Ring, but I do not want to lose it so I do what any prudent hobbit would do.

[Fat middle]

home keys?

[Hobbit Hood]

Bwah Hah Ha!

Nope, besides, Shan already guessed car/home keys! (Not quite fair. But everyone can guess three times!

I know what Gilthalion had in his pocket, because I took it!

ANOTHER CLUE: If a hobbit wants to keep something in his pocket safe, he might put it on a chain...

...not that it would stop me!

[RovingTurtle]

Forum Password on a piece of paper? no jk umm wallet?

[Niffiwan]

A keychain?

[Hobbit Hood]

Nope! Not a wallet! Not a keychain!


Do you want more time?

[anduin]

camera
watch!!! it's a watch :)

[Hobbit Hood]

A POCKETWATCH is the correct answer. But you get credit!

ANDUIN'S turn!

[anduin]

"The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place."

[Niffiwan]

the universe?
time?
That's two guesses...

[anduin]

Nope.....one more guess. :)

[Sauganast]

alpha and omega?

[Eruve]

The letter E.

[Hobbit Hood]

By George! I think she's got it!

[anduin]

Eruve got it! You're up!

[Eruve]

Someone else can post one if they want. I can't think of anything that everone probably already knows...

[RovingTurtle]

I'll give it a go...

What makes some blind but helps others to see.

[Sauganast]

light

[RovingTurtle]

A good answer and could be correct but not what I had in mind

+Sauganast... sorta close (in a twisted way) but no cigar


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No it's not eyeglasses or light
Not love either see below for a hint and another part maybe that will make a little more sense

[Sauganast]

eye glasses?

[Shanamir Duntak]

I guess he's right... or that's what I think too.

[RovingTurtle]

Its sorta wierd and you will probably disagree or tell me it's impossible to guess... perhaps a hint? let me know

[anduin]

Yes a hint or something. :)

[Shanamir Duntak]

Love???

If it's not... give a hint!

[RovingTurtle]

OK a hint then an extension to it...

HINT: It is NOT man made

++ Light as a feather it can be blown to and fro numerous as the stars, smaller then snow...

[Eruve]

This is stretching it quite a bit, but sand? If it blows in your eyes, you're blinded. It's used in making glass which can in trun be made into glasses.

[RovingTurtle]

YES!!!!!!!!!! A stretch it was but you are right. The glass and blowing in eye part was the first part (i read it somewhere dont remember where) and the second part i just made up to make it a little easier, but yes it is correct.

SAND. Now congratulations ur turn ;)

[Eruve]

Not exactly a riddle in the classic sense, but find the explanation:

Victor was smartly dressed, well shaven, and with the best haircut he had had for years. Many of his friends and relatives saw him, yet no one complimented him. Why not?

[Fat middle]

[black humor]well, perhaps he was going to the funeral of his wife.[/black humor] :p

[Eruve]

Black humour aside, you're very, very close.

[RovingTurtle]

Because its HIS funeral??

[Fat middle]

damn! i think you got it

his friend SAW him but Victor coudn't see them. ;)

[Eruve]

is right! You're up next!

[RovingTurtle]

*sigh* im sure we've all heard this one, I'm not in an origianl mood tonight...



The one who made it didn't want it
The one who wants it doesn't need it
The one who needs it doesn't know it

[anduin]

Is it a coffin?

[RovingTurtle]

Indeed it is, your up and lets move off of these funeral and coffin riddles :)

[anduin]

Sorry to get back here so late......

I know a word of letters three.
Add two, and fewer there will be.

[Morkhon]

hhhhmmmm. Would the word happen to be 'few.'

[Eruve]

If you add the letters N and O to "one" you get "no one".

[RovingTurtle]

I agree with Morkhon, /me wonders if its right

[Sauganast]

Really though, you add three to "one" if you include the space, if you wanna get technical that is.

[anduin]

Morkhon would be correct! :)

You're up!

[Morkhon]

Someone else can go. I have no riddles in my head, and am not good at making them up.

[dunedain lady]

Poor men have it
Rich men want it
It is greater than God

(this is assuming you believe in God; which I don't, but I like the riddle)

[RovingTurtle]

Nothing

[dunedain lady]

You got it! :) :)

Your turn!

[dunedain lady]

What's true?

[Shanamir Duntak]

True is T-R-U-E... that's what it is... :p

[Eruve]

NO fair! That's not a fair question. And it's not your turn!! ;) :p

[dunedain lady]

No, I meant RT put as his subject line "It's true, It's true!" So what's true? The riddle?

[RovingTurtle]

I was hoping my answer would be :-P ummm and someone else can go if they wish I've already had quite a few turns

[RovingTurtle]

Come on some one anyone

[Sauganast]

This one is quite easy, but I will post it anyways:

-Places third everytime but never third. Laps everyone else but still third but never third.-

That is all I will say, just thought it up, but eh, someones gotta get this going again, might as well be me.

[Bullroarer]

Yeah, real easy

[arynetrek]

OK, first i get a riddle from Elbreth that i can't solve (at Elvenhome). THEN this one!

i USED to think i was good with riddles!

aryne *

[Sauganast]

here is a hint -- 60:1

[Bullroarer]

The second hand on a clock!

Am I right

[Sauganast]

You sure are bullroarer, congrats, now its your turn.

And by the way bullroarer, since you are a moderator here, who would I talk to about getting my LotR ezboard put on the Entmoot ezboard ring?

[Bullroarer]

Ben
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A wee wee man in a red coat. Staff in my hand, stone in my throat. What am I?

[anduin]

A lawn jockey?

[Sauganast]

horse jockey?

[Bullroarer]

Hint: he has a pit, but you won't fall into it.

[anduin]

Plum...peach?? Neither are really red, but they both have pits.

Does anyone know what a lawn jockey is??

[RovingTurtle]

lawn jockeys are little statues I believe...

Cherry?

[Elanor]

I think you're right

[RovingTurtle]

About the Lawn Jockeys or the cherry ;)

[anduin]

Both!! :)

I can't believe i didn't get that! What was I thinking? :p

[RovingTurtle]

Well, in all fairness, my little sister did help me... :)

[RovingTurtle]

Bullroarer... Am I right?

[Bullroarer]

Oh! I'm sorry, yes, you are correct!

[RovingTurtle]

Im going away and I have no riddle at the present time (even if i did I wouldn't be around to tell you if you were right :lol: ) So someone else may go...

[Bullroarer]

A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears". Davey bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?

[arynetrek]

the parrot's deaf?

aryne *

[anduin]

Oooh, me thinks you gots it. :)

[arynetrek]

can't think of any good riddles - someone else can go

aryne *

[Sauganast]

Everything is there, but little is known of it.
So much is there, but yet so much is not.
Things come and go yet somethings always there.
Beyond there is everything but its hardly been touched.


This one is kind of different, but I think someone will get it. If not within a few days I will give hints. It is kind of a dumb riddle.

[dunedain lady]

Faith, or religion, or something like that?
I'm probably waaaay off, but it seemed to fit ;)

[Sauganast]

Sorry dunedain lady, that is incorrect. As I said, I won't give any hints yet, but after the weekend I will if no one gets it by then! ;)

[anduin]

Memory, brain, mind?? Close?

[Sauganast]

AH.... no sorry, not even close yet. ;) keep trying

[Elysha]

History?

[Sauganast]

Sorry.... that is incorrect too.

[Elysha]

Hint, please? If it's good it will end up being something totally simple and obvious once one knows it. In any case, I'm confused.

[Sauganast]

Wow, I don't know what kind of a hint I can give without giving it away. But hmmm, let me see, how bout:

Everyone has been there and everyone will leave.

[arynetrek]

planet Earth?

aryne *

[dunedain lady]

:) :)
That sounds right

[Shanamir Duntak]

This thread is still alive? Good to see things that were there when I left are still there...
So... whose turn is it?

[Sauganast]

Aryne is our winner!! Congratulations!! :)
Now its your turn!

[Elysha]

If Arynetrek isn't going to post one, then I might as well post one written in the early 19th century. This is one of those words made up by two words.

When my first is a task to a young girl of spirit,
And my second confines her to finish the piece,
How hard is her fate! but how great is her merit,
If by taking my whole she effects her release!

[Morkhon]

Give a hint?

[Sauganast]

wow, good riddle, but I am left clueless. A little hint please? :)

[dunedain lady]

I'm sorry, you can just ignore this one since it's not my turn, but I just found the coolest riddle!!

With pointed fangs it sits in wait,
With piercing force its doles out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?

[Elysha]

I'm sorry, I haven't been here for a few months, so I didn't notice your messages :) . Here's a hint: Cadfael would be familiar with it. If you aren't familiar with Cadfael, he's a monk specializing in herbs who solves mysteries.

[Elysha]

Time?

[dunedain lady]

A stapler :)

[Elysha]

Good one, Dunedain Lady!

The answer to my charade is "Hemlock."

[dunedain lady]

Nice riddle Elysha!

[Bullroarer]

what is your name?what is your quest?what is your favorite color?no wait......Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. What is the third word IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

[anduin]

English

[Bullroarer]

INcorrect

[Randy1012]

Language

[anduin]

Well if it is "language", then someone highlighted one too many words....or they should have said what it the "fourth" word. :p

[Istari Aiwendil]

k

[webwizard333]

I hate this riddle, most people asking it don't even know the answer. Bullroarer, I beg you to email me the answer at webwizard4444@hotmail.com if you know it (I'll be the first one in town to get it right I bet)

[Shanamir Duntak]

Wow.. this thread is still alive!?

[webwizard333]

I'm starting to wonder if there is an answer . . .