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Riddle from the Hobbit (Posted on 2003-06-05)

This thing all things devours:

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

See The Solution Submitted by The Mighty Puck

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re(4): solution? (correction)

| Comment 7 of 34 |

(In reply to re(3): solution? by Gamer)

I mean the Time solution (which as I read isn't Tim's solution)...

I don't understand how time could gnaw iron... Maybe it's just personification or something...

Posted by Gamer on 2003-06-05 12:36:29

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