Crone

“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 it's nassty little pocketsess?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!”
― J.R.R Tolkein

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye