I'll say. I had it at "Runs but never walks" :DQuote:
Originally Posted by edwinunger
I've thought one up now; I'll give it next time I can guess another. :)
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I'll say. I had it at "Runs but never walks" :DQuote:
Originally Posted by edwinunger
I've thought one up now; I'll give it next time I can guess another. :)
Ok, I'll offer up a riddle since the floor appears to be open.
I covered the broad fields of Pellennor
And made beds for niphredil and elanor
Long ago beneath the two trees I lounged
Now I slowly feast upon the Barrow Downs
I've seen and settled in numerous lands
From the Shire's hills to Mordor's sands
Downtrodden and overlooked as ages pass
Spanning western havens to eastern morass
sounds like grass to me hehe
(im pouting right now:( just spent 4.5 hours downloading the roheryn client and the bk13 update and now i cant play, the server is down , bleh:( )
Yup, grass it is.
I've never tried out Roheryn, although I have been tempted at times. I guess I just worry about being jaded after testing out buggy content. I've heard you can auto-level characters though to see what they'd be like maxed out. It would be fun to play with some top end creeps without spending 6 months building them up.
Well, I guess I can post my (delayed) riddle now. It shouldn't be too hard. ;)
It sounds like what they own,
And also what they are.
But it really tells a place,
And what it ends with is before.
Interesting riddle, Gradivus. I can think of a few places that sorta fit the lines, but I'm not sure any of them really stand out as fitting the bill. For now I'll guess "Helm's Deep".
Hehe... didn't know it would be so hard to figure out.
Here's a hint: the answer's right in front of you!
;)
Right in front of me... cubicle walls? Heheh
Well I was gonna guess Ravenhill next, but it sounds like I should think on it a bit. Never look a gift hint in the mouth, I say :)
tough riddle grad.. im struggling
the only thing Ive though of so far is the "hours" on a clock face (the numbers).
They "sound like what they own" (our's),
they "sound like what they are" (hours),
but they "really tell a place" (a place in time? or on the face of a clock? hehe)
and "what they end with is before" (the hours go around in an endless circle, restarting the cycle)
LOL ok im grasping at straws, i told you i was struggling
it came to me because there is a clock in front of me hehe
Ok ok, I think I got it. Maybe. I started thinking about what you might mean by "It's right in front of you". Then I noticed you deleted your sig from your riddle post. Then I took a sip of coffee and the hamster got back on its wheel in the brainpan, heheh.Quote:
Originally Posted by gradivus
It sounds like what they own - their
And also what they are - they're
But it really tells a place - there
And what it ends with is before - "ere", last three letters of there.
So, I will guess that the answer is There. Gramzor police for the win! :)
haha good one womdon, you nailed it:)
(duh i should've gotten that:()
LOL!! Exactly; the word there it is! When I said "right in front of you" I could have added "...in fact, about 1 inch below these lines!" (My signature was on the hint post.) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Womdon
I was sitting there laughing out loud at you guys' struggling with the riddle when I had actually written out the answer in advance, in almost every post I make. It was a good one, eh? :cool:
P.S. -- A valiant effort, Elvyndyr. And though you had to stretch the logic a bit here and there, logically consistent! :)
Good stuff Gradivus, I'm glad the answer didn't elude me for too long, after all, it was right there in front of me as you said.
I believe that makes it my turn to write a riddle again, so here goes:
Lofty principal mar with five stretching stars
Foster of strength and a great many Tars
Raised by the patient, by the ungrateful doomed
Kingly gift for those whose mortality loomed
Surrounded long years by the sundering great
Till its beauty was lost to the folly of hate
Lovely verses. :)
Númenor, I reckon.
P.S. - By principal did you mean principle?
You are correct, Numenor is the answer.
You're also correct that I meant "principle" rather than "principal". It's tough to be precise sometimes while you're looking over your shoulder to make sure no one catches you playing around on the internet :o
By the way, how do you apply diacritics to characters?
Is it a function of the keyboard, or is there some other way to use them?Quote:
Originally Posted by gradivus
I believe there is some way to do it from the keyboard in Windows, by pressing the Alt key followed by the character's ASCII number, but I never remember the codes. What I generally do is cut and paste, either from some webpage that has the words printed that way already, or (more often) I use the multinational character set in MS Word to compose my post, and then cut and paste from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Womdon
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.
You are all n00bs if this isn't solved by Friday. :p
I'll let you get away with using a Gollum riddle this time ;)
EDIT: I've been thinking I should come up with a real tough one here pretty soon. Admittedly the past few I wrote were sort of written on the fly. I'll do some thinking tonight and hopefully I'll have a real doozy to offer up tomorrow morning.
FURTHER EDIT: Wow, LOTRfan, you're already over 1400 posts? You must be getting into the Landroval spirit of things
Oh... very clever...Quote:
Originally Posted by Womdon
Regarding posts: Landroval RULES... yeah, there's so much to do on that forum, it's crazy. Very glad I transfered there!
Pfft, Landroval.Quote:
Originally Posted by LOTRFan101
BW FTW. :p
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Erk, kinda hard to compete with a trio of flashing populs ;)
To be honest, I'm not sure how hard this one is, but I figure it will at least take a bit of effort to decipher:
Son of tragic hostage to tragic house's doom and will
Treasurer lost to Black Enemy's fell swoop upon "bald hill"
Place of promise unfulfilled that took an age to atone
Ere Telcontar's patron led the fallen to black stone
Silver topped lord who was grandsire of Evenstar
Companion of far seeing lady that spurned Annatar
Deep and hidden stronghold of cave-hewing friend of men
Sacked, sullied, and reduced to the Gold Deceiver's den
One-two, Two-three, Three-four, Four-eight,
If you wish to trap a Womdon,
You'll be wise to use this bait.
:D
Okay off the top of my head I'm going to guess at a few of the stanzas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Womdon
First stanza is Turin
Don't know the second.....yet.
Third is Earendil
Fourth is Nargothrond, if I'm correct in assuming you mean Finrod's home that Glaurung desecrated.
As for the fifth to tie them all together, or what the riddle means at all, I'm at a loss, but my trivia abilities will hopefully help someone figure the rest out.
OK Womdon, I'll dig my cryptographical decoder out of the closet and give it a try... when I have the time. :D
And speaking of the Landrover server (don't bother telling me I misspelled it; I consider Landroval the misspelling :p), is it really the all-fired RP server it's supposed to be? I started a character there--my awesome captain Harrigorn (...hehe) and I haven't yet noticed any particular difference from the other servers.
Good pickup that the first stanza refers to the story of Turin, but Turin himself isn't the answer to that one.
I'm also not sure if Elwing ever spurned Annatar.. if she did then Earendil works for the third one too.
Nice job in figuring a good portion of it out, edwin
wow very intriguing one womdon:) it's taunting me to figure it out hehe. so i'll steal every spare minute I can today to work on it
to add to edwinunger's contirbutions so far, Im pretty sure the 2nd stanza refers to the Dwimorberg, the haunted mountain.
and the first stanza could also possibly refer to one of Mim's sons, Khim maybe?
i'll keep working on it when I can spare a moment