It's Farmer Giles speaking:
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'Hey, lads!' said he. 'Come back! I have a job for you, and good wages while this packet lasts.'
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(Though the last word was complete with the choice of 'L', that wasn't the telling clue - it was the word "lads"! That isn't used too often in Tolkien's works, and the "likely lads" occurred to me immediately.)
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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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