And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Quote More from J.R.R. Tolkien “Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your in…” “Man, Sub-creator, the refracted lightthrough whom is splintered from a single W…” “The dragon is withered,His bones are now crumbled;His armour is shivered,His sp…” “It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a van…”