#smith of wooton major

stoneofthehapless:

Smith and the Queen of Faery; art by Ted Nasmith

Then he knelt, and she stooped and laid her hand on his head, and a great stillness came upon him; and he seemed to be both in the World and in Faery, and also outside them and surveying them, so that he was at once in bereavement, and in ownership, and in peace.

J.R.R. Tolkien, Smith of Wootton Major