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“What do you think of Elves now, Sam?” he said. “I asked you the same question once before –it seems a very long while ago; but you have seen more of them since then.”
“I have indeed!” said Sam. “And I reckon there’s Elves and Elves. They’re all elvish enough, but they’re not all the same. Now these folks aren’t wanderers or homeless, and seem a bit nearer to the likes of us: they seem to belong here, even more than Hobbits do in the Shire. Whether they’ve made the land, or the land’s made them, it’s hard to say, if you take my meaning. It’s wonderfully quiet here. Nothing seems to be going on, nobody seems to want it to. If there’s any magic about, it’s right down deep, where I can’t lay my hands on it, in a manner of speaking.”
“You can see and feel it everywhere,” said Frodo.
“Well,” said Sam, “you can’t see nobody working it. No fireworks like poor Gandalf used to show. I wonder we don’t see nothing of the Lord and Lady in all these days. I fancy now that she could do some wonderful things, if she had a mind. I’d dearly love to see some Elf-magic, Mr. Frodo!”
Esta parte do livro leva a Frodo e Sam olhando para o espelho de Galadriel
“And you?’ she said, turning to Sam. “For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel. Did you not say that you wished to see Elf-magic?”
Os elfos não fazem "mágica". Eles simplesmente são mágicos . De maneira semelhante, todas as criaturas da Terra-média têm seus extraordinários talentos. Magia é em todos os lugares , e assim não é notada na vida cotidiana.
Gandalf é um tipo de caso especial, em que ele é um Maiar, então sua magia é um pouco mais óbvia, embora ele tente não aplicar magia explícita a um problema em que a palavra certa na orelha direita seria suficiente.