Ah, I found it now! Nokes, the Master Cook, is speaking of the disappearance of the Faery star to Alf Prentice in
Smith of Wootton Major.
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He looked at Prentice with a smirk, and Prentice looked at him with dark eyes and did not smile at all.
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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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