O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! - Elves of Rivendell

Do I not say truly, Gandalf,' said Aragorn at last, 'that you could go whithersoever you wished quicker than I? And this I also say: you are our captain and our banner. The Dark Lord has Nine. But we...

I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen...

The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the...

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were...

I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Everybody has magic, it's just that most people either don't know it, or don't believe it.

Some people spend their whole lives in a fantasy world, and that's not a good thing!

1. Italo Calvino2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez3. Jim Henson and Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths4. The creator of MySpace5. Richard Brautigan6. J.K. Rowling7. The inventor of the children's toy Lite-Brite8....

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. {...} Never run. {...} Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking of something else. Sing a song, say a poem, do your tricks, but...

Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. {Averill often told herself stories-- the activity seemed to her as unavoidable...

The darkness isn't so frightening with Ryan. With him I can believe that I am a princess with a wreath of flowers and ribbons crowning my head and he is my prince sworn to protect me from the evils in...

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Swords can't solve every problem.

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

*You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in his head instructed. *As you reach the state of sleep, you will slip your body off as you would a...

She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the...

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive {to become dominant in Hobbits} that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often...