It is no exaggeration to say that I am not the same person because of you all.
I hope a better one, certainly more... more... something. Words fail me. Thank
you very much. And may a star forever shine on the hour of our
meeting.
"It is perhaps not possible in a long tale to please everybody at all points, or to displease everybody at the same points; for I find from the letters I have received that the passages or chapters that are to some a blemish are all by others specially approved."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Forward to the 1965 Ballantine edition of "The Lord of the Rings"