Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

"That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!"

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien