Riddles in the Dark of Exilian

[Tusky]

Ding!

[Jubal]

Neat It was it being electrical (rather than fluid) flow that was really what I was missing.

OK, here's my next one:

Walls without a fort surround,
Naught within but upturned ground,
If water the defenders keep,
Through dark holes away it seeps,
No roof or shelter can it give,
But those sent there are sent to live.

[Tusky]

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Flower pot?

[Jubal]

Correct Not such a difficult one, but I liked the poem.

[Tusky]

Hold my arms around you.
You'll barely feel me there.
It's now clear, behold the day.
But come the night,
I must be away.

[Glaurung]

Slightly bemused guess:

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sunlight (but I don't get the "my arms" bit)

[Tusky]

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Good guess, but no. You are sort of on the right lines, though.

I think that my wording was a little off for the sake of making it poetic so I have made a couple of tiny tweaks

[Jubal]

A guess of mine:

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Glasses or sunglasses?
> They have two arms
> Often easy to forget you're wearing them
> They make things clearer to see in the day
> You take them off at night because you can't sleep in them

[Tusky]

Yep. Spot on

Spoiler

Was thinking of glasses specifically because of the "It's now clear" bit - but would have accepted either

[Jubal]

Not sure if this is obvious or not, but here's another anyway:

Magpie's cousin
Found a tavern,
Found a door of heavy wood,
Then that cousin,
Cracked him open,
Tore his nails out where they stood.
Didn't need to sleep thereafter:
Cold as knives, no breath or laughter.
Tell me, friend, upon my oath,
What names pub and cousin both?

[Glaurung]

It seems not obvious, alas.

A clarification question, if I may: does "What names pub and cousin both?" mean that the same word is used for both things?

And then the only guess I've been able to come up with so far:

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a raven or a thrush cracking open a snail

[Jubal]

Does "What names pub and cousin both?" mean that the same word is used for both things?

No.

Hints:

HINT 1

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The answer to the riddle is a single noun (not "X that in this case is doing Y").

HINT 2

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Synonyms and wordplay are your friends.

[justatoady]

Ooh the poem sounds nicely dark and sinister, but is it referring to an

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innocent crowbar

?

[Jubal]

It is! Well, not sure about innocent, but that's the right answer regardless

Right, your turn to do a riddle

[justatoady]

Ok, no idea how obtuse or obvious this is, but here goes^^

I may be refined, I may be impolite.
My mere existence causes men to fight.
I am of ancient beasts long past.
You are frightened that I may not last.
I can take you far and wide.
From the heat I bring, you can never hide.