The Riddle Thread

[Starbrow]

Are you youth?

 

[StarGift]

No
I'll give you guys a hint:
It's an actual physical substance

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

This is a Russian riddle.
When you need it, you throw it away. When you don't need it, you raise it. What is it?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

This is a Russian riddle.
When you need it, you throw it away. When you don't need it, you rise it. What is it?

I'm bumping this thread. I'm not sure of the answer to Haleth's riddle. Where you said "When you don't need it, you rise it." Is "Rise" supposed to be "Raise"?

 

[Starbrow]

I am the fountain from which no one can drink.
For many I am considered a necessary link.
Like gold to all I am sought for,
but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more

Here is a guess for StarGift's riddle.

Are you oil or an oil well?

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Here is a guess for StarGift's riddle.

Are you oil or an oil well?

This seems a promising attempt. The same would have been my guess.

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

I'm bumping this thread. I'm not sure of the answer to Haleth's riddle. Where you said "When you don't need it, you rise it." Is "Rise" supposed to be "Raise"?

Oh, yes, "raise" would be correct.
I'll edit the post.
Thanks for correcting me!

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

No worries, I just wanted to make sure I understood 😊.

 

[Elbereth Vala Varda]

Oh, yes, "raise" would be correct.
I'll edit the post.
Thanks for correcting me!

I honestly still can't solve it-- but I am glad it is corrected.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Oh, yes, "raise" would be correct.
I'll edit the post.
Thanks for correcting me!

My guess is an anchor. You toss it into the water when you need it to hold you in place, you pull it out of the water when you no longer need it to anchor you.

Not sure if this one's been posted but here we go:

What do dead people eat,
which if live people eat,
they die?

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Dirt?

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

My guess is an anchor. You toss it into the water when you need it to hold you in place, you pull it out of the water when you no longer need it to anchor you

Yes, you're right!

 

[Goldilocks Gamgee]

Here's another Russian riddle:

Without doors and without windows,
Yet the room is full of people.
What is it?

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

What do dead people eat,
which if live people eat,
they die?

They eat nothing?

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Here's another Russian riddle:

Without doors and without windows,
Yet the room is full of people.
What is it?

First things first: how is it a room, if it's devoid of doors and windows?

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

They eat nothing?

Correct!

 

[HALETH✒🗡]

Here's another Russian riddle:

Without doors and without windows,
Yet the room is full of people.
What is it?

I know the answer and the riddle but I won't spoil the intrigue.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Here's another Russian riddle:

Without doors and without windows,
Yet the room is full of people.
What is it?

A mirror?

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Correct!

Right, proof that the Halls of Mandos were my true abode during the First Age...

 

[Ent]

This is a Russian riddle.
When you need it, you throw it away. When you don't need it, you raise it. What is it?

Well. Not to be hasty, but I would guess a fishing lure.
When you need it you throw it away from you on a fishing line.
When you don't need it you raise it out of the water to the pole and attach it, and there it sits.