Ah, that clue was very helpful! I found it in
The Hobbit:
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"Come down! Come down!" he shouted to the dwarves on the branch. "Don't stay up there and be netted!"
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...'he', of course, being Bilbo.
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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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