G: Lewis Carroll, who first posed the riddle in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, originally intended it to be nonsensical and lacked an answer. However, in later editions, he offered:

"Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front."

(The misspelling of "never" as "nevar" was sometimes claimed to be intentional, as "nevar" is "raven" backward, but this appears to be a later interpretation rather than Carroll’s intent.)

Many other possible answers have been proposed, including:

• Both have inky associations (a raven’s feathers and ink on a desk).
• Poe wrote on both (a reference to The Raven and his writing desk).
• Both are stationary (a pun on "stationery").

But ultimately, the question works best as an absurdity rather than a riddle with a definitive answer.