Quotables
Who is Gandalf?
What is a pocket handkerchief?
These three couldn't decide how to season dwarves.
Who are the trolls?
This is the answer to the riddle: "Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless buites, Mouthless mutters."
What is Wind?
This was the name of the region where Hobbits dwell.
What is the Shire?
This was the character who said, "...what's it got in its nasty little pocketses?"
Who is Gollum?
What is Sting?
During the thunderstorm, they were out, hurling rocks at each other.
Who were the stone giants?
This is the answer to the riddle: "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."
"What is Dark?"
This was the dwelling place of the woodelves and the spiders.
What is Mirkwood?
These voices sang, "Far over the misty mountains cold; To dungeons deep and caverns old; We must away, ere break of day; to see the pale enchanted gold."
Who are the dwarves?
This was Bilbo’s plan for freeing the dwarves from the palace of the Elvenking.
What is putting them in empty barrels and floating them away on the river?
This is the name of the ancient talking crow.
Who was Roac?
This is the answer to the riddle, "Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail never clinking."
What is a fish?
This was the mountain range under which the dwarves and Bilbo travelled straight through.
What are the Misty Mountains?
This person said," Very well! We'll see! No treasure will come back through Mirkwood without my having something to say in the matter. But I expect they will all come to a bad end, and serve them right!"
Who was the King of the wood elves?
This was the first piece of treasure that Bilbo stole from the dragon's hord.
What is a two-handled cup?
This person lived in the last homely house.
Who is Elrond of Rivendale?
This is the answer to this riddle:"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 mountains down."
What is time?
This was the once-flourishing city of men that Smaug destroyed long ago.
What is the City of Dale?
This person said, "At the gate of the forest I must ask you to send back my horse and my ponies. But I wish you all speed, and my house is open to you, if ever you come back this way again!"
Who is Beorn?
Bilbo escaped the lonely mountain for a few hours one night to offer this bargaining tool to this person.
What is the Arkenstone offered to Bard to aid in his bargaining with Thorin?
This is the name of Bilbo's mother.
Who is Belladonna Took?
The Bible contains riddles too. in Judges 14:1-19, this is Sampson's riddle. And this is the answer.
What is "Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet."
And, "What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?"
This was the region from which Dain, cousin of Thorin, marched with his troops to come to Thorin's aide.
What are the Iron Hills?