And in this manner, on a not-even-quite technicality, the riddle game was won. Yours truly recognizes it — the part where he stuck to the question instead of returning to the game — as cheating, and it comes before Bilbo’s moment of pity. Let us make of that what we may.

[05.063] ‘What have I got in my pocket?

Is it even a poem? I will cheat, too.