Saturday, October 3, 2026

Rhyming Riddle 17

Here is today's riddle:


Voice-less I cry;
Wing-less I flutter;
Tooth-less I bite,
And mouth-less I mutter.
Who am I?

clue:You can hear me, but you cannot see me.
clue:I bite when I am cold.
clue:I am moving all the time, but I never get tired.

reveal/hide answerThe wind.


This is one of the riddles that J.R.R. Tolkien has Bilbo pose to the creature Gollum in The Hobbit. Tolkien was a keen scholar of tradition riddles, and this riddle rates highly as a faux-traditional riddle: if you didn't know if was from Tolkien, you would suppose it to be truly old, right? It was fun picking a picture of this invisible thing:

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