Petty Dwarf, I imagine it was out of his head, but I have read nothng definitive.
There are a nuber of drafts to Bilbo's version in HoME VI(?) that I have yet to investigate, they may shed clues and even more hopefully, material.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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