Living Things
April 16, 2007
“Living things must constantly be broken up and destroyed; it is only the dead things than can be left alone.”
G. K. Chesterton – “The Riddle of the Restoration” Lunacy and Letters
Making Plans
April 10, 2007
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
J. R. R. Tolkien, from The Hobbit
Aragorn
March 16, 2007
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Swimming Upstream
February 28, 2007
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
G. K. Chesterton, “The Five Deaths of the Faith” The Everlasting Man
chance of turning back
February 20, 2007
“But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end”
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Head in the Sand
February 19, 2007
“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring
Grave Miscalculation
February 17, 2007
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Self-Sacrifice
February 16, 2007
“It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings
The Citadel
February 7, 2007
“The center of every man’s existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”
G. K. Chesterton – “Sir Walter Scott,” Twelve Types
Silence Strengthens
February 4, 2007
“Complaint always comes back in an echo from the ends of the world; but silence strengthens us.”
G. K. Chesterton – The Father Brown Omnibus
