Let’s consider something lighter for a change: riddles.
I submit one I just invented. The three parts are separated to allow you to guess in stages, with the third part the easiest for guessing (the three parts make up the same riddle). Traditional ones are interspersed. I’ll give a hint for my own riddle: It’s not nearly as dark as it first appears.
With a Coldness (part one) by Jonathan Whitcomb
With a coldness kills a walker
With a rock it makes a blocker
With a hole it hides a stalker
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Used in The Hobbit
Voiceless it cries
Wingless flutters
Toothless bites
Mouthless mutters
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With a Coldness (part two)
With a foot that never walks
It never eats; it never talks
But may look down on soaring hawks
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Old Riddle put to rhyme by J.W.
Feed me, I grow
Touch me, I bite
Always I glow
Water’s my fright
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With a Coldness (part three)
Bravest men can die on whim
Rivers run away from him
Gawkers gaze from highest rim
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Will you be surprised?
Answers
The Hobbit riddle: the wind
Another old riddle I put to rhyme: fire
“With a Coldness:” a mountain
