Ah, that one was a bit tricky, but now I found it - it's Tom, speaking to the Troll in
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil:
Quote:
I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
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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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