It was not really the right time for this riddle, but time is running short. Gollum might have had some trouble guessing, if asked 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 gives it.
Then 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.
Gollum's points | 4 |
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Your points | 4 |