I found it! It's in
Mythopoeia, which is spoken by Philomythus to Misomythus. He tells of creation:
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The movements of the sea, the wind in boughs,
green grass, the large slow oddity of cows...
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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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