The Hobbit: Gholam and Bilbo Puzzles!

[Mithilesh Kumar]

1. “If we don’t get blown off, or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football.”

2. "No-legs lay on one-leg, two-legs sat near on three-legs, four-legs got some."
Ans: “Fish on a little table, man at table sitting on a stool, the cat has the bones”

3. "Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking."

4. "A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid"

4. "What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees,     Up, up it goes,     And yet never grows?"

5. "Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ,     Then they stamp,     Then they stand still."

6. "Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters."

7. An eye in a blue face Saw an eye in a green face. “That eye is like to this eye” Said the first eye, “But in low place Not in high place.”

8. "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."
The Hobbit