Riddle Time!

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

These riddles come from my daughter's reading assignment -- if you have read any of these books you might recognize them. She asked me some, and I could only answer two.


1. Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, and then they stand still. What are they?

2. Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters, toothless it bites, mouthless it mutters. What is it?

3. 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." What is it?

4. It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt, it cannot be heard, it cannot be smelled. It lies behind stars, and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter. What is it?

5. A box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid? What is it?

6. This thing all things devours, birds, bees, trees, flowers, gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to mill, slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountain down. What is it?


Anybody know what famous book these riddles come from?

[Chap]

No... and you better give me the answers!

[Wolfcounsel]

1. Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, and then they stand still. What are they?

Teeth

2. Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters, toothless it bites, mouthless it mutters. What is it?

The wind

3. 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." What is it?


The sun and its reflection in water

4. It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt, it cannot be heard, it cannot be smelled. It lies behind stars, and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter. What is it?


Space


5. A box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid? What is it?


An egg


6. This thing all things devours, birds, bees, trees, flowers, gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to mill, slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountain down. What is it?

Time

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

1. Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, and then they stand still. What are they?

Teeth
RIGHT


2. Voiceless it cries, wingless it flutters, toothless it bites, mouthless it mutters. What is it?

The wind
RIGHT

3. 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." What is it?


The sun and its reflection in water
WRONG

4. It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt, it cannot be heard, it cannot be smelled. It lies behind stars, and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter. What is it?


Space
WRONG


5. A box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid? What is it?


An egg
RIGHT


6. This thing all things devours, birds, bees, trees, flowers, gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to mill, slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountain down. What is it?

Time
RIGHT




Wanna guess what book the riddles are from?

[Wolfcounsel]

Mother Goose?:question:

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

3. 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." What is it?


The sun and its reflection in water
WRONG - A Daisy

4. It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt, it cannot be heard, it cannot be smelled. It lies behind stars, and under hills, and empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, ends life and kills laughter. What is it?


Space
WRONG - Darkness



The book they are from: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit

[Faithful_Servant]

Those are the riddles that Bilbo and Gollum exchanged in the Hobbit. The one that Gollum couldn't aswer was the last one.

[whipple]

6. This thing all things devours, birds, bees, trees, flowers, gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to mill, slays kings, ruins towns, and beats high mountain down. What is it?


Anybody know what famous book these riddles come from?

Oh...oh...me I know <::Waves Hands in the Air::>
They're from the hobbit where Bilbo and Gollum end up fighting over the ring 'cos Bilbo cheats and asks an impossible riddle.

'Whats in my pocket?' - I mean WTF?? thats not a riddle.