I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.

I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.

The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest