That took a bit of detective work, but I finally found it! Merry is the speaker.
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That must be the stone that marked the place where the trolls' gold was hidden.
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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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