Thanks for your patience, HI! After a few days away from home and PC, I'm back and thanks to your clues, I found the quote.
Quote:
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"This is a heavy load!" some grumbled. "They float too deep - some of these are never empty."
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..."some" being the Elves who pushed the barrles full of Dwarves on their way out of Mirkwood.
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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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