Ah, that helped - here it is:
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They will be slain, and all our ponies too, and all our stores lost.
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Those are "the others" - apparently, all of the Dwarves except for Bifur, who notices that they have forgotten Bombur and Bofur in the valley, and Thorin, who answers after the quoted sentence.
(By the way, HI, it's your turn on the "minor works" trivia thread, over in the Quiz Room...)
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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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