Try and guess the answer to these riddles found in The Hobbit. No peeking!
What has roots as nobody sees,
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
Voiceless it cries
An eye in a blue face
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt
A box without hinges, key, or lid
Alive without breath
This thing all things devour
is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes
and yet never grows?
First they champ,
then they stamp,
then they stand still
Wingless flutters
Toothless bites
Mouthless mutters
Saw an eye in a green face
"That eye is like to this eye"
Said the first eye
"But in low place.
Not in high place"
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt
It lies behind stars and under hills
And empty holes it fills
It comes first and follows after
Ends life, kills laughter
Yet golden treasure inside is hid
Cold as death
Never thirsty, ever drinking
All in mail never clinking
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers
Gnaws iron, bites steel
Grinds hard stones to meal
Slays king, ruins town
And beats high mountain down