“The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.”
“Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.”
“Already he had achieved a tremendous success, as the great wings of an Elder had lifted him above the impossible, and were carrying him ever closer to the possible.”
“Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.”
“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”
“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should suggest incipient allegories to the reader.[C.S. Lewis writes to J.R.R. Tolkien on December 7, 1929]”