April 04, 2007
Tolkien Tuesday #9
Since this month is national poetry month, I thought I'd let you be serenaded by one of the poems from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Bilbo's Song in Rivendell
I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green.I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.
January 23, 2007
Tolkien Tuesday #8
J.R.R. Tolkien - On Fairy-Stories
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons: it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.
Take the Fair Face of Woman by Sophie Anderson
Sign the Petition to bring Peter Jackson back as director of The Hobbit!
January 10, 2007
Jackson won't work on Hobbit
Apparently New Line Cinema refuses to work with Peter Jackson on a Hobbit film due to his lawsuit against them. However, production is still moving forward.
"Jackson had told TheOneRing.net in November that he and partner Fran Walsh were bowing out after New Line, which produced the Rings films and has production rights to The Hobbit, told them the studio was moving ahead with The Hobbit without them. Jackson has said he won't discuss The Hobbit until a lawsuit against New Line over Rings accounting practices is settled."
Read the full article here.
January 09, 2007
Tolkien Tuesday #7
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
January 03, 2007
December 19, 2006
December 12, 2006
Tolkien Tuesday #5
He [the Great Polar Bear] was nosing round the ruins [of Father Christmas' home] soon after breakfast (he hides things to eat there) and turned on all the Northern Lights for two years in one go.
--Letters from Father Christmas 1926
November 28, 2006
Tolkien Tuesday #4
Good sermons require some art, some virtue, some knowledge. Real sermons require some special grace which does no transcend art but arrives at it by instinct or 'inspiration'; indeed the Holy Spirit seems sometimes to speak through a human mouth providing art, virtue and insight he himself does not possess: but the occasions are rare. In other times I don't think an educated person is required to suppress the critical faculty, but it should be kept in order by a constant endeavour to apply the truth (if any), even in cliche form, to oneself exclusively!
J.R.R. Tolkien
In a letter to his son Christopher in South Africa
November 21, 2006
Tolkien Tuesday #3
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
November 14, 2006
Tolkien Tuesday #2
By the way, this is also post number 200 for me.
November 07, 2006
Tolkien Tuesdays #1
My friend at Vox Vendsel has been doing a great job in posting C.S. Lewis Sundays. I love reading the quotes chosen. Being unorginal myself, and I hope she won't mind, but I'm going to steal the idea just a little bit and create Tolkien Tuesdays. (I will probably be less regular about it, but I'll try anyway.)
I'm much more of a Tolkienite than Lewisian. I think we are a smaller portion of the population at large, but that doesn't mean we can't glean insights from both of these friends.
With apologies to Vox, here is Tolkien Tuesday #1, in honor of Election Day.
"Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people."
"The most improper job of any man, even saints...is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
From a letter to his son Christopher
