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.
Let's see how many can figure it out =)
2007-03-02 12:50:06 · 16 answers · asked by Daniel 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
...or remember it hehehe
2007-03-02 13:02:15 · update #1
Yes, it is time, and yes, it is from The Hobbit. It is when Bilbo and Gollem play the riddle game.
The text from that passage is:
It was not really the right time for this riddle, but Bilbo was in a hurry. Gollum might have had some trouble guessing it, if he had asked it at another time. As it was, talking of fish, “no-legs” was not so very difficult, and after that the rest was easy. “Fish on a little table, man at table sitting on a stool, the cat has the bones,” that of course is the answer, and Gollum soon gave it. Then he thought the time had come to ask something hard and horrible. This is what he said:
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.
Poor Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the horrible names of all the giants and ogres he had ever heard told of in tales, but not one of them had done all these things. He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking. Gollum began to get out of his boat. He flapped into the water and paddled to the bank; Bilbo could see his eyes coming towards him. His tongue seemed to stick in his mouth; he wanted to shout out: “Give me more time! Give me time!” But all that came out with a sudden squeal was:
“Time! Time!”
Bilbo was saved by pure luck. For that of course was the answer.
2007-03-02 13:00:42 · answer #1 · answered by Walking Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time
2007-03-02 21:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by Lesley M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time!
2007-03-02 20:53:14 · answer #3 · answered by Lil Miss Answershine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hazordes lol chemicals
sre 4 da spelling
2007-03-02 21:20:48 · answer #4 · answered by Miranda B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time!
From the hobbit, right?
2007-03-02 20:53:52 · answer #5 · answered by Captain Carla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey actually i aint sure.Is it time,or gravity?
2007-03-02 21:07:44 · answer #6 · answered by Danise 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
r u stupid puttin that hard crap on the internet
2007-03-02 20:53:29 · answer #7 · answered by cookies 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TIME
2007-03-02 21:48:46 · answer #8 · answered by denny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
humans or gravity?
2007-03-02 20:54:14 · answer #9 · answered by Shan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my johnson
2007-03-02 21:47:30 · answer #10 · answered by heynow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋