Over the course of my forays into the countless realms of the Multiverse, courtesy of those illustrious folk knows as Fantasy authors, I have learned many things: the great potential for good and ill in humanity and that bravery is working through, rather than the absence of, fear, to name but two.
But, most importantly, I learned that the happiest ending an author is not written in ancient runes nor is the result of a mighty piece of magic. It is not a vanquished evil, nor a kingdom won, nor even combination.
Indeed, the happiest of all endings is not arcane in the slightest, nor something born out of ancient days and dreams out of myth.
No, the most important thing Fantasy literature has taught me is that the happiest ending is, in fact, a wedding...and the more the merrier.
Fantasy's greatest lesson is that love is the highest law, and nobody has the right to deny it.
"Love supplies a kind of strength that can withstand even death." - Terry Brooks
"To love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong." - Cadvan of Lirigon
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love." - Albus Dumbledore
"Power shaped by wonder and curiosity; even love. Not by fear and laws that shut out instead of inviting it." - Od
"The world is
indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still
there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled
with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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