Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again! ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012)…

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Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again! ✨ J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). The Lord of the Rings: One Volume, p.407, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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