Boredom brings riddles

[dubia_lux]

Cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind the stars and beneath the hills.
Ends life and kills laughter.

Comments

[an_old_fool]

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[dubia_lux]

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[an_old_fool]

[dubia_lux]

[devour_the_weak]

The answer is darkness.

[dubia_lux]

That answer is acceptable.

[devour_the_weak]

It's fairly obvious.

[dubia_lux]

Well, no, it is not a difficult riddle.

[eiremagic]

It'd be less pathetic if you hadn't gone with a riddle that was published in The Hobbit.

[dubia_lux]

"That was published in a Tolkien novel" is the correct answer.

[eiremagic]

Correct term, not correct answer.

[dubia_lux]

No, correct answer. "Darkness", while the answer to the riddle itself, is not the response I was looking for.

[monochrome_mind]

Death. Unless, of course, this is one of those riddles that has multiple answers.

[dubia_lux]

The answer to the riddle itself, as understood by the general public, is "darkness".

[monochrome_mind]

Ah, it makes sense now.

This is a pastime of yours, I take it? Testing the City's residents with riddles?

[dubia_lux]

Only sometimes.

[blacktipped]

Bored?

[dubia_lux]

Yes.

[blacktipped]

Ahh.

Darkness?

[dubia_lux]

Yes.