Legolas?

No to Legolas. Nice idea, though. I suppose he'd have dwindled eventually had he not sailed west.

Pasting it here because we are on a new page:

Unhappy once, I now am blessed.
Whate'er you think, I do not jest!
Since friendship is a gift divine
I dwindle, but I do not pine.

Treebeard?

No.

Frodo?

Nope.

A nice thought, though, (apart from the dwindling).

What does 'dwindle' mean in this context? Someone who lingers behind or someone who withers?

That's for you to work out. :D

I will say, though, that it is not an elvish kind of dwindling, and the answer, too, is not an elf.

Look at the dictionary definition of 'dwindling.' I have used it quite literally.

If we go by dictionary definition of dwindling, then it's 'I will diminish and go to the West' Nerwen

Nope.

Not an elf. (See my notes, above).

Theoden?

Not a man either.

Gollum?

No.

I suppose he kind of finds a friend in Frodo, but he doesn't stop pining for the Ring, and I don't think he becomes fully happy. Maybe in the last few seconds of his life?

I was talking about his friendship with Deagol, actually.


Anyway, Bilbo?

Well, he wasn't dwindling at that point.

Not Bilbo either.

Sam?

No.

There is a hobbit connection, but the answer is not a hobbit.

I assume it's an object then.


The One Ring?

No. It's living.

Bill the Pony?

No.

Well, nothing else is coming to me, and that drives me crazy.

Let's give it a bit longer, until our friends over the pond are awake and have had a chance. Then I'll give another hint.

There's always the password thread!

Not an Elf, not a Man, not a Hobbit, but living. Tom Bombadil! Though I'm not sure he was ever unhappy.

Big hint now for everyone: think POETRY.

Which is perhaps a good reason *not* to think of Bombadil, (who is not the answer). :D

And because it's now quite far up the page:

Unhappy once, I now am blessed.
Whate'er you think, I do not jest!
Since friendship is a gift divine
I dwindle, but I do not pine.

As in, Tolkien poems? There are a lot of those......

Eureka! It's the Troll!

Perfect - that's the exact quotation I was thinking of, too!

It's the troll from 'Perry-the-Winkle.'

The hobbit connection is the hobbits in the poem, and the fact that Bilbo probably wrote it, (I think). (Although thinking about it, it mentions the Lockholes, which I am not sure existed as such before around the Scouring, so maybe Sam wrote it?)

I said a 'living thing,' although I suppose the characters in the poem are fictions *within* Tolkien's fiction. ;)

Here's a little ditty I made up on the spot



Now we ride into the battle
And into the red morn
Our armors clink and rattle
Followed by sound of the horn

We wouldn't listen to their warning
For this is our choice to make
And with the dawn of the morning
This is the path we'll take

A creature of darkness stands in our path
He's tall and he brings fear
Large is his wrath
But it'll all end right here

We'll hold our own
And follow the words of old
We'll bring the enemy down
As the prophecy foretold

The Rohirrim, and the prophecy regarding the Witch-King?

Close, but not that. It's, shall I say, more selective than that.

Eowyn and Merry specifically, during the Pelennor? They were both warned against going to war, but chose to do so anyway, and it was their actions that destroyed the Witch-King.

hS

Perfect. ^^

You may find multiple characters along the way, but the answer to the riddle is one word that links the three verses together.

hS

I wonder if Bejewelled is Ar-Pharazon and Wolf is Carcharoth.

No and no. Ar-Pharazon had no heirs, and... actually Carcharoth would work quite well for the Wolf text if 'avenging son' was metaphorical, but it's not him. :)

hS

Gold=Maglor?


And if I am right about the other two, then the riddle answer is Silmaril.

Not Maglor or Silmaril in this case. :)

hS