The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

Tears unnumbered ye shall shed.

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

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?