J.R.R. Tolkien (51)
  1. Jesus is the great Houdini of the grave for us. And through His death, He gives us the Great Escape from death that leads to the great joy of the Resurrection.
  2. The absence of a feeling is not the absence of Christ, but as emotional, rational, and spiritual beings, we cannot say that the presence of Christ necessitates the absence of emotion.
  3. Recovery helps us see beauty in the ordinary; the miracle and wonder of creation in the oak leaf or the evergreen needle.
  4. What do the events of good stories, like The Lord of the Rings teach us about the rise and fall of civilizations in our own world?
  5. Eucatastrophe combines two Greek words: ‘eu’ meaning ‘good’ (as in eulogy or euphoria), and ‘katastrophe’ for destruction.
  6. Fairy tales are but one chapter in the book we call storytelling. We may prefer reading other kinds of stories (mystery, science fiction, and so on).
  7. Before long I was deeply involved in the trilogy (the reader is invariably "drawn into" the story in a unique way, and for a good reason as we shall see).
  8. As the story unfolds we see Luther’s Heidelberg theses on display, even before the Fellowship leaves Rivendell.
  9. On this night of nights, Christ arises victorious and sends the devil’s hordes running with no darkness to find cover; death’s dark shadow is gone
  10. The only thing Hobbits love more than a good meal, is good company with whom they can share it.
  11. I have found that Gandalf’s words above ring true, not only in Middle-earth, but in our world as well.
  12. It is Tolkien's adept ability at combining imagination with Sub-Creation to give his fictional world of Middle-Earth that ‘inner consistency of reality’ which points to the truth of the Gospel.
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