Title: Riddle of Eyes
Fandom: The Hobbit
Challenge: Eye
Rating: G
Length: 92
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Inspired by the Sun on the Daisies riddle. Harder to write than I thought it would be. Book based, not film.
Summary: A riddle not as light-hearted, nor as philological, as the one that inspired it.



The hot eye of flame is quenched cold in the lake
And sought is his treasure, the gold he did take

Eye green with leaves challenge eye stern as stone
Eye keen and eye covetous stand not alone

Grey skies hide day’s eye, that burns like a sword
Red eyes come running, a clamorous horde

black eye spies yellow eye - sound the alarm
Yet nigh march eyes allied, grim and well-armed

From afar eyes of air are summoned to fly
By a star-eyed one's lord, who looks from on high



The Battle of Five Armies
—the various eyes in order:
Smaug
The Elvenking/the Wood-elves - Thorin/the 13 Dwarves
Bard, The Master, the Men of the Lake
The Sun
Goblins/Orcs
Roac/the Ravens of Erebor - the Wolves
Dain and his Dwarven warriors
The Eagles
Varda, Manwe