If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.