Thanks to my fellow posters here for the good combination of letters! "Finding" clued me in to the source. It's
Farmer Giles of Ham speaking to the King:
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I have got my reward, I reckon. Finding's keeping and keeping's having, we say here
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A nice variation on a proverb!
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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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