How to play: Read the riddle from Gollum and try
to figure it out. If you give up,
highlight the space between the two [ ], and you'll have the answer.
Gollums Riddles:
"It must have a competition with us, my preciouss! If precious asks, and it doesn't answer,
we eats it, my preciousss. If it asks us, and we doesn't answer, then we does what it wants, eh? We shows it the way out,
yes!"
1.What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
[ Mountain ]
2. Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they scamp,
Then they stand
still.
[ Chesnuts ]
3.Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
[ The Wind ]
4. 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."
[ Sun on Daisies ]
5. 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.
[ The Dark ]
6. A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
[ Eggs ]
7. Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail
never clinking.
[ Fish ]
8. This thing all things devour:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds
hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
[ Time ]
