Talk:The First Riddle

From ILB

A pig building a house of brick is from the old English folk tale The Story of the Three Little Pigs (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0124.html#halliwell).

"The Road goes ever on and on" is the first line of "The Old Walking Song" from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Bilbo Baggins sings it at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring, as he is leaving his home (and the Ring) following the birthday party, and again at the end of The Return of the King, when he is in Rivendell with the Elves. Bilbo also sings a similar song, which begins "Roads go ever ever on," when he returns home at the end of Tolkien's The Hobbit.

And the yellow brick road is from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (http://www.literature.org/authors/baum-l-frank/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/), of course. -- Shadow 00:33, 29 Aug 2004 (EDT)