New riddles posted : 1 May 2008

Riddle 1

Touching one, yet holding two,
It is a one-link chain.
Binding those who keep words true,
'Till death doth rend it twain.

What is it?

(A wedding ring)

Riddle 2

I have many tongues but cannot taste.
By me, most things are turned to waste.
I crack and snap, yet I stay whole.
I may take the largest toll.
I assisted the first men,
And I will pay them back again.
Around me, people snuggle and sleep,
Yet run when I am released from my keep.
I jump around and leap and bound.
The cold man wishes, me he had found.

What am I?

(Fire)

Riddle 3

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.

What is it?

(JRR Tolkien)

(Time)

Riddle 4

We are very little creatures;
All of us have different features.
One of us in glass is set;
One of us you'll find in jet.
Another you may see in tin,
And a fourth is boxed within.
If the fifth you should pursue,
It can never fly from you.

What are we?

(The vowels, A,E,I,O and U)