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“Anyway all this stuff is mainly concerned with Fall, Mortality, and the Machine.”
- Tolkien, Letter 131
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I utterly reject the idea that I am wasting my potential by staying home with my children.
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@mrsdobbins_
When I had my first at a hospital, a whole group of students came in to “observe” even though I’d said I didn’t want them in the room. They said they’d never seen an unmedicated birth before. I felt like I was on display or something 🥴
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“Are the gods not just?”
“Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?”
- C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
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Twitter is full of unsolicited advice, most of it terrible.
“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
- Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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“Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs. Those who care for something else more than civilisation are the only people by whom civilisation is at all likely to be preserved.”
- C.S. Lewis, On Living in an Atomic Age
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“Joan of Arc was not stuck at the cross-roads, either by rejecting all the paths like Tolstoy, or by accepting them all like Nietzsche. She chose a path, and went down it like a thunderbolt.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“Act. And God will act.”
St Joan of Arc
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“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
- Tolkien, The Return of the King
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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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@DylanoA4
“…a characteristic of the great saints is their power of levity. Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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“I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion.”
- Tolkien, Letter 340
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“The bright side of it is,” said Puddleglum, “that if we break our necks getting down the cliff, then we’re safe from being drowned in the river.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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“…read the last 2 chapters (Shelob’s Lair and The Choices of Master Samwise) to C.S.L. on Monday morning. He approved with unusual fervour, and was actually affected to tears by the last chapter, so it seems to be keeping up.”
- Tolkien, Letter 72
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“‘Friend,’ said the Spirit. ‘Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?’”
- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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“I want her back…Could I have wished her anything worse? Having got once through death, to come back and then, at some later date, have all her dying to do over again? They call Stephen the first martyr. Hadn't Lazarus the rawer deal?”
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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“Our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions…the Divine life operating under human conditions.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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“The truth is that only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticise the state.”
- G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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“I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!”
- Treebread (Tolkien, The Two Towers)
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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend…”
- Faramir (Tolkien, The Two Towers)
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“I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ - though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.”
- Tolkien, Letter 195
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“Faërie cannot be caught in a net of words; for it is one of its qualities to be indescribable, though not imperceptible. It has many ingredients, but analysis will not necessarily discover the secret of the whole.”
- Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories
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“How shall a man judge what to do in such times?”
“As he ever has judged,” said Aragorn. “Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them…”
- Tolkien, The Two Towers
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Someone wanted to know what the point of my posts is:
I read a lot of books. I take a lot of notes. Certain themes and threads remind me of other things I’ve read and I like to connect them when I can. And then, I like to share these connections with other people. Hi 👋
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“But as she looked on him, doom fell upon her, and she loved him; yet she slipped from his arms and vanished from his sight even as the day was breaking.”
- Tolkien of Beren and Lúthien, The Silmarillion
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“…he who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.”
- G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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“Good night, Captain, my lord,” he [Sam] said. “You took the chance, sir.”
“Did I so?” said Faramir.
“Yes sir, and showed your quality: the very highest.”
Faramir smiled.
- Tolkien, The Two Towers
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“Uncertainty is a great weight on the heart.”
- Tolkien, Letter 135
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“I pray for you – because I have a feeling (more near a certainty) that God, for some ineffable reason which to us may seem almost like humour, is so curiously ready to answer the prayers of the least worthy of his suppliants – if they pray for others.”
- Tolkien, Letter 312
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“But there are few left in Middle-earth like Aragorn son of Arathorn. The race of the Kings from over the Sea is nearly at an end. It may be that this War of the Ring will be their last adventure.”
- Gandalf (Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring)
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6yo over breakfast: Why did the king of the elves tell Beren he had to get a Silmaril from Morgoth’s crown to marry Lúthien?
My work here is done.
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“…we are miserable moderns and rationalists. We do not merely love ourselves more than we love duty; we actually love ourselves more than we love joy.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
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“Even the Lion wept: great Lion-tears, each tear more precious than the Earth would be if it was a single solid diamond.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
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“There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet…”
- Tolkien to Michael Tolkien, Letter 45
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“Look at me, Éowyn!”
And Éowyn looked at Faramir long and steadily; and Faramir said: “Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn! But I do not offer you my pity.”
- Faramir (Tolkien, The Return of the King)
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“The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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“Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.”
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“It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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“…but for me all good things come to a point, swords for instance.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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Did not watch the debate. Had a great conversation about That Hideous Strength instead. Would recommend 👏
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“It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s own.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific verity. On the contrary. The keener and the clearer is the reason, the better fantasy will it make.”
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@FranciKing15848
@mrsdobbins_
Tried. Literally had a nurse tell me, “How else are they supposed to learn?” It was obnoxious.
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“My son, my son,” said Aslan. “I know. Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.”
- Aslan (C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew)
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“What do people mean when they say ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good?’ Have they never even been to a dentist?”
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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“It is a great blessing to have importunate and determined friends who will not let one relapse into permanent silence.”
- Tolkien, Letter 133
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“A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
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“But where shall I find courage?’ asked Frodo. “That is what I chiefly need.”
“Courage is found in unlikely places,” said Gildor. “Be of good hope!”
- Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.
- Tolkien, Letter 124
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Currently reading:
The Prose Edda
Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring
Heretics
Lilith
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Battle of Maldon
The Letters of JRR Tolkien
And the counter book situation has somehow escalated.
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“It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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“Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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@TheEcho13
He says women have outrageous expectations, and yet his own expectations are outrageous.
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“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion…To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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This week my husband:
Took my car in for an oil change and to have the tires replaced.
He bought me a pair of AirPods because I mentioned my corded headphones were constantly getting caught on the cabinet pulls.
He booked us a trip to a Moot in Cincinnati.
Like what 😭
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“You weren’t a decent man and you didn’t do your best. We none of us were and none of us did. Lord bless you, it doesn’t matter. There is no need to go into it all now.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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“Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them.”
- Tolkien of Theoden, The Return of the King
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“…a great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.”
- G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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Book haul poast ✨
That’s not the edition of Book of Lost Tales I ordered, but this is what happens when we buy used books online…
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“I desired dragons with a profound desire.”
- Tolkien, On Fairy-stories
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“The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy…There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true…”
- Tolkien, On Fairy-stories
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“Can you believe what I have been telling you - that we don’t belong here, we come from a better world and have got to go back there if we can?”
- Michael to Camilla (C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower)
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“For a good wife contains so many persons in herself. What was H. not to me?”
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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“Gandalf was not ‘fated’ to act as he did then. (Indeed his actions were most odd, idiosyncratic, and unexpectable: Gandalf was a powerful ‘free will’ let loose, as it were, among the physical ‘chances’ of the world.)”
- Tolkien, The Nature of Middle-earth
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“I find ‘dragons’ a fascinating product of imagination.”
- Tolkien, Letter 122
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“Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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*Me every morning: I want to post 1,000 quotes today, which ones should I pick?
Also me: You can’t post 1,000 quote poasts, be reasonable.*
Thank you so much for tolerating my nerdiness with such graciousness, good people of Twitter 😆 I am grateful!
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“…no victory, even on a world-shaking scale, is final. The war will go on, taking other modes.”
- Tolkien, Letter 131
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“The utter stupid waste of war, not only material but moral and spiritual, is so staggering to those who have to endure it. And always was (despite the poets), and always will be (despite the propagandists)…”
- Tolkien, Letter 64
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“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.”
- Aslan (C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew)
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“The love of a hero is more terrible than the hatred of a tyrant.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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“As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is a mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
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@OldHollowTree
Barred Plymouth Rock - consistent layers and friendly, too. Great with grabby toddlers.
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“The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
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“I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, ‘What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and most hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers.”
- C.S. Lewis, On Science Fiction
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“Some say the loving and the devouring are all the same thing.”
- C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
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And ever living queens that grow not old
And poets wise in robes of faerie gold
Whisper a wild, sweet song that first was told
Ere God sat down to make the Milky Way.
And in those gardens we shall sleep and play
For ever and for ever and a day.
- C.S. Lewis, Song of the Pilgrims
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“…Caspian learned more about Old Narnia, so that thinking and dreaming about the old days, and longing that they might come back, filled nearly all his spare hours.”
- C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
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“As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.”
- Tolkien of Lúthien Tinúviel, The Silmarillion
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“Anyway, one always feels better when one has made up one’s mind.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
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“Dawn is not far off,” said Gamling, who had now climbed up beside him. “But dawn will not help us, I fear.”
“Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,” said Aragorn.
- Tolkien, The Two Towers
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“You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”
- Gandalf
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“They wanted a sequel. But I wanted heroic legends and high romance. The result was The Lord of the Rings…”
- Tolkien, Letter 257
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“By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.”
- C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
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A peek at husband’s latest weekend project. I can’t wait to do school out here ✨
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“But before I had done so, this mare spoke with the voice of one of the daughters of men and said, ‘O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike.’”
- Aravis (C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy)
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@ChivalryGuild
“It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.”
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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Oiled (book)shelves while baking tonight, so here’s some of the Tolkien collection and a loaf poast:
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