For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
J. R. R. Tolkiendeep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.
J. R. R. TolkienFaerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
J. R. R. TolkienGandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.
J. R. R. Tolkien