A thousand and one apologies for so late an entry! It has been months since I have posted anything on my blog, and I am SO sorry! Things got crazy once I went to school, and so much has happened! But I figured with start of the New Year, and the fact that today is J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday, made it that much more of an excuse to get off my butt and ACTUALLY write something! Ha ha
I figured I might start today with something of a tribute to the man who wrote the Lord of the Rings, but not in the same way as others might do it. This isn’t going to be a biographical tribute, more of a case-in-point dedication to a man using his work to testify to his genius and his faith in the Lord and his example of that faith.
I LOVE J.R.R. Tolkien. He was such an amazing man. I’ve been reading The Hobbit as of late because of the films and such, and I’m finding myself wanting to read Lord of the Rings more and more when I read it. The Hobbit was supposedly written for Tolkien’s children as a story, which I could see by the way it is written, but in my opinion Tolkien hit his stride and really found his place in fiction and fantasy in his writing of Lord of the Rings. No other work of fiction can even come close to such an unparalleled example of not only scenic description, but character history, plot, depth of material, and religious, spiritual and historical symbolism is beyond comparison.
J.R.R. Tolkien is a great example of how one man, a great and incredibly intelligent man, used his talents to portray God in a fantasy setting, with such a realistic and believable storyline and set of characters as is still unseen in the same way in literature to this day.
I’d also like to use this post to give you a glimpse into how God used the Lord of the Rings to change my life, and how He still continues to use it to this day to continually remind me of His love for me, and of how God has called me to a very different sort of life than I had ever expected of myself.
It goes unsaid that Lord of the Rings has changed millions of people’s lives, and will continue to do so as long as the Lord sees fit. I am merely one of those people. In a time in my life when all I saw was the darkness and numb depression in my life, God sent me grace and inspiration in Lord of the Rings. My life was hectic and chaotic and just plain awful a lot of the time for many years, and the Lord provided a world, Middle Earth, as a way to find Him, to keep my sanity, and to really fall in love with something that would ultimately change and inspire my life, even through the start of my college career.
Lord of the Rings let me be myself, and be passionate about something that spelled so many amazing principles: bravery, voluntary sacrifice, love, joy, friendship, fellowship (I couldn’t help adding that one! Ha ha!), and of course a great and unequaled perseverance and endurance from so many dozens of characters in the story.
I will OF COURSE be spelling more of this out in detail because so much of this is SO important to me and my search and interpretation of this creative material for the novel that I am writing through the Blessed Mother and her wonderful hands. =)
Let me end this blog post with just another thank you to that great man who changed my life through his intercession and work here on earth, and in Heaven (I have no doubt):
Thank you, J.R.R. Tolkien, for all you have done in my life and in the lives of so many others. Your work brought together some of the best actors to see, and has been one of the greatest and most influential fantasywritings ever written.
Thank You Lord, for all You have done through J.R.R. Tolkien in my life and others. I could never repay You for the amazing things that have come into my life since that day I first saw Lord of the Rings. Thank You Lord, so much. =)
And the random word is…tolkien-purist!!!! Ha ha it had to be fitting to today! =)
Adios ya’ll!!! I promise to try and post more than recently and will do more with my study of Lord of the Rings to share with all of you. =)
Happy happy happy birthday Mr. Tolkien! You are definitely remembered here on Earth. =)
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