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Since: Dec, 1969

It's a fantasy book for youngish children.
It starts with the protagonist living on an island but he gets swept away to adventure. The four elements are each ruled by a different king or queen (Air and fire were kings, water and earth were queens I think) who were all created by or children of Night and they're going to have a war, which causes the elements to meld and that's bad.
The protagonist meets a hermit philosopher type and his daughter, and one of the air kings soldures who made snowballs? Hailstones? in the back of a cloud for war but crashed it on his adventure, it ends when they meet Night who's spent years trying to figure out Truth but getting nowhere and convince her to tell her children to stop fighting.
Any ideas?