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"They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world. It was not yet gone, but it was getting buried: the memory of the high and the perilous."
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Gandalf about the Shire Hobbits in the appendix of "The quest of Erebor"
I had figured out nearly the whole text, but was puzzled because it didn't sound like a quote but a piece of narrative, like in the prologue... So your hint was very welcome,
Ibri!