Sunday, August 8, 2010

More of Middle-Earth FRIDAY, JULY 23

   Today was broken into 3 parts:  The Inklings, Blenheim, and a banquet.  So I'm also posting in several pieces.  The picture above is the house that JRR Tolkien lived in while writing The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.  I will let his own words explain the picture below...

          "Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us
          from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which
          amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death
          light that endures.  And of these histories most fair still in the
          ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien." 
                           —JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion Chapter 19


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  1. Joe M.August 11, 2010 at 9:48 AM

    Hey Kevin,
    I know I'm dense, but John is J. R. R. and Edith is his wife? How wonderful that he wrote a love story in the Silmarillion about their life together.

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