"Where am I, and what is the time?" he said aloud to the ceiling.
"In the house of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning," said a voice. "It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know"
--The Fellowship of the Ring, book II, chapter 1: Many Meetings
...That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, "a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep or storytelling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all". Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness.
--The Fellowship of the Ring, book II, chapter 1: Many Meetings