Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

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

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.