Ah, I found it! I thought it looked like poetry lines, and after discovering that the "Think less, and talk less of ghosts" line from
Beorhtnoth didn't fit, I tried the Tom Bombadil poems. It's Tom, speaking to the King's fisher:
Quote:
Talk less, Fisher Blue! Keep your kindly wishes!
Fly off and preen yourself with the bones of fishes!
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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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