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Old English Riddle (Posted on 2006-11-30)

In marble walls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

Submitted by Nadia Modagon

Rating: 2.7500 (4 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

An egg -- this is a the original version of the 'umpteenth hobbit riddle.' I don't know if Tolkien actually mentions that he didn't invent the riddle ... but oh well.

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Subject	Author	Date
Solution	K Sengupta	2007-02-19 00:25:16
--	Strad	2006-12-16 02:08:33
maybe?	really_bored	2006-12-09 19:05:26
re: But hopefully not on my face (Spoiler)	Elizabeth	2006-12-01 12:35:46
But hopefully not on my face (Spoiler)	Jyqm	2006-11-30 07:00:01

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