And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.