Well, perhaps it's time to answer this question:
The first two poems in the Tom Bombadil cycle, "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" and "Bombadil Goes Boating",
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evidently come from the Buckland. They show more knowledge of that country, and of the Dingle, the wooded valley of the Withywindle, than any Hobbits west of the Marish were likely to possess. They also show that the Bucklanders knew Bombadil, though, no doubt, they had as little understanding of his powers as the Shirefolk had of Gandalf's...
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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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