Iliff-King phrasebook

Origin

From the writings of JRR Tolkien

Collector

Naomi – 1970s
Naomi Iliff (King) – owner

Notes

Bilbo pinched himself and slapped himself; he gripped on his little sword; he even felt in his pocket with his other hand. There he found the ring he had picked up in the passage and forgotten about. “What have I got in my pocket?” he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. “Not fair! not fair!” he hissed. “It isn’t fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it’s got in its nassty little pocketses?”
—JRR Tolkien (The Hobbit 1937)