"And the dawns and the sunsets and twilight and the pale blue glow of stars, that are blended together forever to be the light of Elfland, felt a faint touch of sorrow and all their radiance shook. For the magic that caught these lights and the spells that bound them together, to illumine forever the land that owes no allegiance to Time, were not so strong as a sorrow rising dark from a royal mood of a princess of the elvish line."

I don't understand why this book and author are not more well known, I don't even remember how I even heard of it. I know that it took me forever to get it because it wasn't available in bookstores and I ended up ordering it instead of waiting any longer.

It was such a lovely story, one of the most beautifully written fantasy I've read. It's very much in the spirit of a fairytale rather than the epic fantasy most of us are familiar with, with a touch of "what happens after happily ever aftee?"

It's one I will now recommend to everyone.