What was The Hobbit's 3rd riddle?

Answer 1

Gollum asked several riddles. Here they are:

• What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes and yet never grows?

Answer: A Mountain.

• Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.

Answer: The Wind

• It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,

  Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. it comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter.

Answer: The Dark

• Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail never clinking.

Answer: A Fish

• 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.

Answer: Time
Gollum asked several riddles. Here they are:

• What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes and yet never grows?

Answer: A Mountain.

• Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.

Answer: The Wind

• It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,

  Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, and empty holes it fills. it comes first and follows after, ends life, kills laughter.

Answer: The Dark

• Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail never clinking.

Answer: A Fish

• 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.

Answer: Time

Answer 2

The answer to the Gollum's final riddle is "time." Bilbo stumbles upon this answer when, pressed hard by Gollum to procure an answer to the riddle, Bilbo unwittingly answers the question correctly in asking for more "time" to think.

Answer 3

The third riddle asked by Bilbo was as follows:

"A box without hinges, key, or lid,

Yet golden treasure inside is hid."

The answer to the riddle is an egg.

Answer 4

The third riddle in The Hobbit asked by Gollum is: "Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters." The answer to this riddle is the wind.