Who/What am I?

[Midnight_Carnival]

I love riddles, even those mathematical problems disguised as riddles, but my specific area of interest are those "who/what am I" ones. If you know any, please post them, but any riddles will be welcome.

I'll open with some easy ones since I don't want to break anybody's brain:

I take from you what you do not want
I give you golden gifts and leave you with bright smiles
I help those in agony
But nearly all men fear me

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Now that I've grown to my greatest of heights
I am sentenced to die in the prime of my life
I return to the wold in a box, dressed in white,
To die again five minuites after the touch of a light

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I break the back of the stong man
The proud man bows before me
I rip out your hair and your teeth
I cripple you
I make you blind and deaf
But those who escape my abuse
Are wept for by those who I torture

Can I eat people who can't answer? Pleeeaze!

[Dixie]

I would say:

1) Dentist;

3) Life, perhaps?

I don't really know any myself, so sorry on not contributing to that :/

[Gambit]

What have I got in my pocket?

[artisticdude]

First is war.
Last one's time.

[monochromatic]

The first part of the second one makes me think of a tree, but then the second part doesn't make much sense. I'm sort of bad at this. But I do know two; they're simpler than the first three:

Inside of a green house is a white house
Inside of the white house is a red house
Inside of the red house is a bunch of black and white babies

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I am a ballerina
I dance in a red room
where many people in white watch me

[artisticdude]

Inside of a green house is a white house
Inside of the white house is a red house
Inside of the red house is a bunch of black and white babies

Okay, my thoughts on seeing this run as follows:

Inside the earth, which is suffering from the myth known as the "greenhouse" effect, there is a place in Washington DC, USA called the White House. In the White House there is a small red playhouse, in which the White House Nursery Service places all the babies brought to them.

[Joram]

Very nice thread. I like.

A bunch of guesses, most of them likely wrong.

I take from you what you do not want
I give you golden gifts and leave you with bright smiles
I help those in agony
But nearly all men fear me

Spoiler:

Death would have been my guess, but I think the dentist is correct.

Now that I've grown to my greatest of heights
I am sentenced to die in the prime of my life
I return to the wold in a box, dressed in white,
To die again five minutes after the touch of a light

Spoiler:

A snowflake

I break the back of the strong man
The proud man bows before me
I rip out your hair and your teeth
I cripple you
I make you blind and deaf
But those who escape my abuse
Are wept for by those who I torture

Spoiler:

Old age

Inside of a green house is a white house
Inside of the white house is a red house
Inside of the red house is a bunch of black and white babies

Um...

I am a ballerina
I dance in a red room
where many people in white watch me

Spoiler:

A tongue

The only ones that I could contribute would be those from The Hobbit, which I expect too many people know to make it worthwhile (I've heard more, but wouldn't be confident I could reproduce them).

[monochromatic]

I am a ballerina
I dance in a red room
where many people in white watch me

Spoiler:

A tongue

Correct :p

[Dixie]

Now that I've grown to my greatest of heights
I am sentenced to die in the prime of my life
I return to the wold in a box, dressed in white,
To die again five minuites after the touch of a light

Wait just a sec now, would the answer be... JESUS?

[monochromatic]

But Jesus won't die again...

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

I'll have to look over these later.

Here's mine though. I invented it myself.

You can sell it, but you cannot buy it.
Everyone has it, but no one knows how much they have.
What is it?

[Midnight_Carnival]

Now that I've grown to my greatest of heights
I am sentenced to die in the prime of my life
I return to the wold in a box, dressed in white,
To die again five minuites after the touch of a light

Wait just a sec now, would the answer be... JESUS?

-no.

Very nice thread. I like.:

-thanks!
Re your answers:
yes, no,yes so what, I only get to eat one of your feet?

I'll have to look over these later.

Here's mine though. I invented it myself.

You can sell it, but you cannot buy it.
Everyone has it, but no one knows how much they have.
What is it?

Talent?

[Speedbrain]

Midnight_Carnival:

Dentist. (as someone already said)
A match.
Time. (as someone already said)

elvish_sovereign:
Watermelon.
Tongue (as someone already said)

[monochromatic]

elvish_sovereign:
Watermelon.
Tongue (as someone already said)

Correct.

@catwhowalksbyhimself I have no idea.

Here's another one.

Sometimes I am shaped, but I can be shapeless
I have a large cut that is constantly mended then cut again
When I am alone it is usually dark

[Speedbrain]

Didn't notice catwhowalksbyhimself's post. I think talent is a good answer from Midnight_Carnival, although it might not be right.

Sometimes I am shaped, but I can be shapeless
I have a large cut that is constantly mended then cut again
When I am alone it is usually dark

The moon?