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“Anyway all this stuff is mainly concerned with Fall, Mortality, and the Machine.” - Tolkien, Letter 131

“How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshipping an imaginary God.” - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Tolkien calls Faërie ‘the Perilous Realm,’ not because the elves are hostile or belligerent, but because their world is so likely to overwhelm its human visitors, even if with beauty and delight.” - Corey Olsen, Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

“…for Wars are always lost, and The War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint!” - J.R.R. Tolkien to Christopher Tolkien, Letter 101

Exploring the Lord of the Rings, Session 344 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

“…but once more I comforted myself with hope and went on.” - George MacDonald, Phantastes

Finally tracked down a copy for the 7yo’s collection ✨

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.” - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"In the changes of the world the shapes of lands and of seas have been broken and remade; rivers have not kept their courses, neither have mountains remained steadfast; and to Cuiviénen there is no returning." - J.R.R. Tolkien