Found! - though I had to page all the way through
Roverandom first, because I thought it sounded like it was located there. However, it's in
Farmer Giles; the giant is speaking to his "scattered relations":
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'Oh well, there's no place like home, they say,' said he. 'But maybe I shall go back one day when I have a mind. And anyway I went there once, which is more than most folk can say.'
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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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