Catholic ping!
In an article he wrote about Tolkein, Jonah Goldberg noted that the good professor thought that English literature written after Chaucer was too frivolous.
...and he doesn’t look a day over 114...
Or you could revel in my son’s birthday. 16yo today.
My favorite author.
And we are indebted to his son Christopher Tolkien for dedicating much of his life to sharing his father’s unpublished work. Without those works that have been published since Tolkien’s death, we would only have guessed at the level of complexity and completeness which lay beneath the Lord of the Rings universe, and the extent to which that universe was a proving ground for Tolkien’s rich ideas about religion and philosophy.
As every year goes by, my esteem for CS Lewis grows less and less........
Tolkien? Me gusta mucho!!!
Eleventy-nineth birthday.
Eleventy nine already!
[T]he chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis . . . . We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendour....
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Thank you so much for posting this. I had never seen those words from Tolkien before.
I read the books but never seen these words from Tolkien
Happy Birthday Mr. Tolkien with our Lord and Angels!