Riddle Game The Hobbit. By answering the riddles that Gollum and Bilbo present to each other during their encounter ending in Thief. The third installment in The Hobbit trilogy debuts this week.
Gollum tells riddles about the things hes most familiar with. In the end Bilbo wins through a bit of trickery. What has roots as nobody sees Is taller than trees Up up it goes And yet never grows.
For one thing Gollum had learned long long ago was never never to cheat at the riddle-game which is a sacred one and of immense antiquity.
The explanation from the Annotated Hobbit is of course a history of the riddle game in our world-not Middle-Earth. Repeat until all of the riddles are gone. The answer to Lindirs riddle lies somewhere in Rivendell. The Authorities it is true differ whether this last question was a mere question and not a riddle according to the strict rules of the Game.
