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Ah, it's as I thought then - in the Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "The Man in the Moon came down too soon". The cook is responding to the Man in the Moon's wish for "fire and gold and songs of old and red wine flowing free".
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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