Riddles in the Dark

[coRtALoS]

For those of you that already know the answers to these riddles, please don't reply to them. Or PM me the answers if you want to be Mr./Mrs. Smarty Pants and not ruin the game for others. This is for the benefit of those people that haven't read the book these are from.

Alright, I'll post a riddle, and once someone guesses the answer, if they can't think of one, I'll post another. Here's the first one:

What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees.
Up, up it goes.
And yet never grows?

 

[cartman2g]

um yeah *erm*THe SUN*erm*?

 

[flashflores2]

family tree?

 

[SmashBros.Pro]

Hmm... This one is tough, seems like some kind of emotion, but anger grows so thats out of the question, maybe fear?

 

[coRtALoS]

Hm, I see where you guys are coming from, and I guess this one is a little vague... Think of something more solid and tangeable. It's not living.

If you guys wanna pass, let me know, and we'll try another. I have a few here.

 

[Bjornita]

it's a mountain.

 

[coRtALoS]

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.

 

[Bjornita]

a shadow? i've heard it before, is it one of the gollum ones?......

 

[flashflores2]

you can see a shadow, how about air

 

[Bjornita]

the letter e? can't be...i was thinking 'e' or 's', but no......

but air doesn't kill you, it helps you live....

 

[ShenLiang]

nothing

 

[ShenLiang]

too obvious

 

[Kamikaze]

technically the process in which our bodies break down oxygen does kill us slowly over time, they're called free radicals and they damage our cells from the inside out
but it doesn't explain the kills laughter part

nothing ends life?
nothing kills laughter?

how about time? or an invisible sock full of quarters

 

[Kitty]

seems like death, you can treally smell it, it ends life, kill laughter, because if someome close to you dies you are feeling verey bad. if it fills an empty hole, then i can understand that if something was in that hole, it died and death fills the hole. kinda logical isnt it?

 

[Kamikaze]

but it doesn't explain "it lies behind stars, and under hills"

 

[Kitty]

yeah i guess so... but who can be alive behind a star? or under a hill? oh wait something can live under a hill, especially bugs...

 

[flashflores2]

haha

 

[N[U]TS]

Originally posted by coRtALoS
For those of you that already know the answers to these riddles, please don't reply to them. Or PM me the answers if you want to be Mr./Mrs. Smarty Pants and not ruin the game for others. This is for the benefit of those people that haven't read the book these are from.

Alright, I'll post a riddle, and once someone guesses the answer, if they can't think of one, I'll post another. Here's the first one:

What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees.
Up, up it goes.
And yet never grows?

I know where these riddels are coming from............... even though i dont read very much, I do like the books writen by JRR Tolken
heres a question for yall..........wich book are these riddels coming from? and dont answer this cortalos if u already know.

 

[coRtALoS]

Bjornita got the closest with shadow. The answer was Darkness. A lot of good guesses though. Okay, on to the next one...

Alive without breath;
Cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking;
All in mail, never clinking.

Heh, and yes Nts, I do know where these are coming from. Shhh! Don't spoil it for the others!

 

[Emperor Pan I]

"It's mine, my beauty, my precious"