"Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. I denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat... giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief."
                                                                                                                      - J. R. R. Tolkien

Still round the corner there may wait

      A new road or a secret gate

      And though I oft have passed them by

      A day will come at last when I

      Shall take the hidden paths that run

      West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

                                       
                                      - J.R.R.Tolkien