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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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Great puzzle

| Comment 33 of 34 |

Alrighty, the answer to this puzzle has to be time because that the only thing that all of the things in the puzzle have in common

Posted by Traci Duncan on 2007-07-19 09:30:36

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