Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
J. R. R. TolkienA man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
J. R. R. TolkienBooks ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
J. R. R. TolkienAnd it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.
J. R. R. TolkienThe mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.
J. R. R. Tolkien