Adventures make one late for supper.

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell

I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.