“The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.” Psalm 121:5-6

“I now suggest as titles of the volumes, under the over-all title The Lord of the Rings: Vol. I The Fellowship of the Ring. Vol. II The Two Towers. Vol. III The War of the Ring (or, if you still prefer that: The Return of the King).” - Tolkien to Rayner Unwin, Letter 140

“The earthly beloved, even in this life, incessantly triumphs over your mere idea of her. And you want her to; you want her with all her resistances, all her faults, all her unexpectedness. That is, in her foursquare and independent reality.” - C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Poor Boromir! I could not see what happened to him. It was a sore trial for such a man: a warrior, and a lord of men. Galadriel told me that he was in peril. But he escaped in the end. I am glad.” - Gandalf (Tolkien, The Two Towers)

“Again love to you all. Up the Ents! Down with the Ruffians. And may the King return!” - Tolkien to Michael Tolkien, Letter 194a

“The words of this wizard stand on their heads,” he growled, gripping the handle of his axe. “In the language of Orthanc help means ruin, and saving means slaying, that is plain.” - Gimli (Tolkien, The Two Towers)

“If we ask a sane man how much he merits, his mind shrinks instinctively and instantaneously. It is doubtful whether he merits six feet of earth. But if you ask him what he can conquer - he can conquer the stars. Thus comes the thing called Romance, a purely Christian product.”

C.S. Lewis: “For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.” Tonight’s fortune cookie:

“When God put man in a garden He girt him with a sword, And sent him forth a free knight That might betray his lord…” - G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse “I have the sword," said Adam. "The angel gave it me when he left the gate." - George MacDonald, Lilith

“Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” Psalm 127:1

“…a man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope.” - G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

Living my dream: homeschooling in the wild on the weekend ✨

6yo wants to know which gem is the rarest. I’m tempted to tell her it’s a Silmaril ✨

“Now you have only to live, and that you must, with all your blessed might. The more you love, the stronger you will become to live.” - George MacDonald, Lilith

“I wish we had a thousand oliphaunts with Gandalf on a white one at their head,” he said. “Then we’d break a way into this evil land, perhaps. But we’ve not; just our own tired legs, that’s all.” - Frodo (Tolkien, The Two Towers)

Flash’d all their sabres bare, Flash’d as they turn’d in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder’d. - Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade