 Found it!!
"What!" cried Gloin
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"One of those simpletons down in the Shire? What use on earth, or under it, could he possibly be? let him smell as he may, he would never dare to come within smelling distance of the nakedest dragonet new from the shell!"
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Gloin (in the company of Thorin, Balin etc.) at Gandalf's suggestion to take a hobbit on their quest. (In the earlier version of "The Quest of Erebor", found in the Appendix to it)
The end of the quote puzzled me a lot (I'd never haved guessed those words) but "what use on earth or under it" rang a bell! 
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Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat
our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!
Last edited by Guinevere; 07-24-2013 at 12:17 PM.
Reason: a typo
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