LogFAQs > #950028358

found it.

so, original English:
"Indeed, few Hobbits had ever seen or sailed upon the Sea, and fewer still had ever returned to report it."

Swedish translation, then translated by me back into english:
"It was the case that the life of a sailor did not fit in at all with the general disposition of the Hobs. Very few had seen the sea, even fewer had sailed it, and of those who had really sailed, only a vanishingly few had returned and been able to tell about what they had experienced."

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