• If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

    J. R. R. Tolkien: If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt