Riddles in the Dark of Exilian

[Tusky]

I am almost certain this is wrong...

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Love / Love letter

Neck of swans
The shape of the necks of two swans is like a heart?

Bottles from around the world,
Make them decorations, songs,
A letter - a love song?

Feast when summer's leaves are furled,
Feast of st. valentine?

[Jubal]

You are correct, in the sense of correctly thinking that your answer is the wrong one

[Tusky]

I keep looking back at this and can't work out any of the allusions (like Glaurung said).  Also I have no idea who Murad is.

[Jubal]

It's a Turkish name (including of a number of Ottoman Sultans).

Further clues:
1. Light clue

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Of the six lines of the riddle, each pair focuses on a different aspect of the solution.

2. Heavier clue further explaining 1

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In order, the pairs are varieties, then uses, then wordplay.

[Ierne]

I THINK I'VE GOT IT! I KNEW SOMETHING WAS RINGING A BELL

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Gourds!!!

[Jubal]

Perfect - yep. Ierne wins

(And gets the prize of setting the next riddle!)

[Ierne]

Blown glass, spun gold,
Coloured marbles, pink clouds,
Swans, mice, flowers, bowls,
Something pretending to be something it's not.


... I never have any idea how hard or easy I make these :'D

[Jubal]

The only thing I can think of is

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sugar. Sugar mice, sugar bowls, pink clouds = candy floss. But I don't think sugar swans are a thing, and I'm not sure how the marbles or glass work either there.

[Ierne]

youre right! sugar swans and sugar 'blown glass' are a thing in posh patiserie.


marbles, i was just thinking about boiled sweets

your turn!

[Tusky]

Whilst we wait for Jubal here is a nice (hopefully) easy one:

Before the new day breaks, I will be most strong
Some people might doubt you - but then they'd be wrong

If you don't comprehend, whatever you do
If you don't know but try, then I surround you,

You could look at the moon, I'm hidden - but there
Where could I be then? Perhaps anywhere

[Jubal]

Is it

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Darkness?

[Tusky]

Sure is!

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Before the new day breaks, I will be most strong
- darkness before the dawn / being afraid of the dark generally
Some people might doubt you - but then they'd be wrong
- dark horse

If you don't comprehend, whatever you do
If you don't know but try, then I surround you,
- in the dark / stab in the dark

You could look at the moon, I'm hidden - but there
- dark side of the moon
Where could I be then? Perhaps anywhere
- lots of things cast shadows

[Jubal]

Right, finally wrote one. Probably a bit easy, but I felt it was a pretty rhyme:

I send my letters every year,
On parchments yellowed with their age,
I throw them up into the wind,
Unread, they scatter, page by page,
But when you write a letter, then
I write no more and I am gone;
For from my body, limb and heart,
Is made that which you write upon.

[Ierne]

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tree?

[Jubal]

Correct, your turn