jacque boatman

“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

Here is your regular reminder to listen to this 39-hour collection at least once a year.

“Again she fled, but swift he came. Tinúviel! Tinúviel! He called her by her Elvish name; And there she halted listening. One moment stood she, and a spell His voice laid on her: Beren came, And doom fell on Tinúviel That in his arms lay glistening.” - Tolkien, The Fellowship of…

In His will, our peace. -Dante

“Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.” - C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

reading was such a cornerstone of my childhood, so it breaks my heart that fewer children are reading for fun :( and will thus never experience the exhilaration that comes with staying up past your bedtime bc you can’t put a good book down

G.K. Chesterton, The Mystery of the Mystics:

“Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: He preserveth the souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.” Psalm 97:10

Man, some people really hate the idea that things might actually have meaning.

When a restaurant has a One & One on the menu 🫶

Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade

“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