Sublime

Thorin Oakenshield

Then Gandalf laughed. The fantasy vanished like a puff of smoke.

‘Darkness is passing,’ said Gandalf, ‘but it still lies heavy on this City.’

Bilbo Baggins,

Yet in the wizard’s face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

“And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”