tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76948562024-03-07T09:26:45.391+00:00The InklingsA place for an occasional examination of the work of the Inklings... and to marvel at, in Charles Williams' words, "... the staff work of the Omnipotence".Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger948125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-43179158304326109872020-11-15T16:42:00.004+00:002023-01-14T18:24:51.730+00:00The Triumph of the Angelicals<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XoZ2bD7Wr2JqoyJ-TwxPhSDLu6gtjLPekCNPQG8wlup87CwN7S0TBi0nfI-xicE_wljJA2W8BWP04fD-SUBlkAOFjOR-bNtiDavDeIoVKp5gXgw5odP3pDeiUWl5Dlwi23vOl--lIIH6_VRd9SuFXhsxTBiBAZjNR6Bjb2sNEnhYR-PzTw/s1000/C1753D4E-4B52-450C-8E60-240BEAE3EADC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="718" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7XoZ2bD7Wr2JqoyJ-TwxPhSDLu6gtjLPekCNPQG8wlup87CwN7S0TBi0nfI-xicE_wljJA2W8BWP04fD-SUBlkAOFjOR-bNtiDavDeIoVKp5gXgw5odP3pDeiUWl5Dlwi23vOl--lIIH6_VRd9SuFXhsxTBiBAZjNR6Bjb2sNEnhYR-PzTw/s320/C1753D4E-4B52-450C-8E60-240BEAE3EADC.jpeg" width="230" /></a></div></b><b style="text-align: left;">Charles Williams writing about a church of which I was the Pastor in the 1990s.</b></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>As he reached the other side he saw
before him a church.<span> </span>It was a small, old,
rather ugly Wesleyan church; the doors were open because of the heat, and apparently
the service was not yet over.<span> </span>Richardson,
casually attracted, looked at his watch: nearly nine.<span> </span>He paused on the pavement and looked in.<span> </span>It must, he thought, be some kind of
after-service, and, after a few moments' search, the notice-board confirmed the
idea.<span> </span>On the third Sunday in the month
there was apparently the Breaking of Bread.<span>
</span>It must, he thought, be a rather out-of-date place; most of the Nonconforming
Churches had adopted the words "Holy Communion." Besides, this
building still called itself "Zion," which was surely a rather old-fashioned
title.<span> </span>But perhaps he was wrong; he
didn't pretend to be an expert in ecclesiology.<span> </span>All that sort of thing was very well for the
minds that could use it; he couldn't use it, neither the small dull gatherings
of the Evangelicals or the large gaudy assemblies of the Catholics.<span> </span>"The flight of the alone to the
Alone." But no doubt this was proper to them--if it increased their speed
upon the Way.<span> </span>Speed, speed, and always
speed! His mind remembered that wild careering herd; so, and swifter than so,
he desired the Return.<span> </span>He seemed to
hear the beating hooves again, and while for a moment he attended to that
interior echo something huge and rapid drove past him and into the church.<span> </span>Certainly he had felt it, though there was
nothing visible, but he had felt the movement of a body and heard the sound of
hooves.<span> </span>Within him his chief concern
renewed itself in a burst of imperious ardour; he burned towards the--no, not
fire; no, not darkness; no words, no thought, nothing but...nothing but...well,
but--that which was when all other "buts" had been removed, and all
hindrances abolished.<span> </span>For a moment he
felt a premonition; something wholly new and exquisite touched him and was gone.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>He
was standing in front of the church and looking into it.<span> </span>There didn't seem to be many there; one or
two figures were moving at the upper end; a few more were scattered about the
small building.<span> </span>They were seated as if
waiting--perhaps for the Breaking of Bread; and as he gazed a gleam of extreme
brightness struck through the building and vanished, for the lights within had
flashed upon something moving that caught and reflected their radiance in one
shining curve as if a sword had been swung right across the church.<span> </span>Blinded by its intensity he took a step back,
then he recovered and looked again.<span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>This time--and his spirit livened
again with his habitual desire--he saw it.<span>
</span>It was standing at the other end of Zion; it was something like a horse
in shape and size, but of a dazzling whiteness, and from the middle of its
forehead there grew a single horn.<span> </span>He
recognized the myth of poems and pictures; he saw the Divine Unicorn gently
sustaining itself in that obscure and remote settlement of the faithful.<span> </span>He recognized the myth, but he recognized something
else too, only he could not put a name to it.<span>
</span>The thing moved, pure and stately, a few paces down the aisle, and as it
did so he was transported within himself a million miles upon his way.<span> </span>It moved with the beauty of swiftness,
however small the distance was that it went; it lowered and tossed its head,
and again that gleaming horn caught all the light in Zion, and gathered it, and
flashed it back in a dazzling curve of purity.<span>
</span>As the brightness passed he saw that within they were still intent upon
the service; the deacons were bearing the Bread of the Communion to the few who
were there, and as they did so it seemed to the watcher that the unicorn moved
its head gently in the direction of each, nay, that some eidolon of itself,
though it remained unchanged in the centre, went very swiftly to each, and then
he lost sight of the images.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Only now he was aware--and only
aware--of a sensation of rushing speed passing through his being; it was not
for him to ad or e the unicorn; he was the unicorn.<span> </span>He and those within, and others--who and
when and where he did not know, but others--a great multitude whom no man could
number--they went swiftly, they were hastening to an end.<span> </span>And again the shining horn flung back the
earthly lights around it, and in that reflection the seeker knew himself
speeding to his doom.<span> </span>So slow, so slow,
the Way had seemed; so swiftly, so swiftly, through aeons and universes, the
Principle, the Angel of man's concern, went onwards in unfailing strength.<span> </span>Yet it had not moved; it stood there still,
showing itself, as if in a moment's dream, to the fellows of devotion, so that each
beheld and supposing it to be a second's fantasy determined not to speak of it.<span> </span><span> </span>But
pure and high the ardour burned in every soul, as Zion shone in Zion, and time
hastened to its conclusion in them.<span> </span>The
minister gave out a hymn; the voices began it; the great beast of revelation
that stood there moved again, and as Richardson unconsciously moved also he felt
his arm caught from behind.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Startled and constraining himself,
he turned his head.<span> </span>Behind him, a little
to his left, clutching his arm, and staring at him with fierce bloodshot eyes,
stood Foster.<span> </span>For a few seconds Richardson
did not take in the fact; the two remained staring.<span> </span>Then, he could not have told why, he broke
into a little laugh; Foster snarled at him, and the hand that was on the
other's arm seemed to clutch and drag at it.<span>
</span>Richardson took a step or two backward, his eyes going once more to the
aisle as he did so.<span> </span>But this time he
could see nothing unusual; indeed, he felt doubtful already of what he had
seen, only he knew that there was working within him a swiftness more than he
had ever dreamed.<span> </span>The hesitations and sloths
that had often hampered him had vanished; he looked at Foster from a distance,
down a precipice from the forest of the unicorn to the plain of the lion.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">Foster said, "It's here."</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">"It's always here," the younger man answered,
"but we have to go a long</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">way to find it."</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>
</p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Charles Williams</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Place of the Lion
(1933)</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chapter
Twelve</b></span></span></p>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoseKMTBEbhlzBtGUfEvUJXCnHknuiMrTEmrGk1InQihg9iQEoCv808EoUKR31buMp5_EoT9e6kftsUqVeYIqb69lIpj2qmaNRuyBpdYwBiPLhoKZTI-JMGRK4IwuXc9gYLcRT/s1600/Proverbs+Actual.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoseKMTBEbhlzBtGUfEvUJXCnHknuiMrTEmrGk1InQihg9iQEoCv808EoUKR31buMp5_EoT9e6kftsUqVeYIqb69lIpj2qmaNRuyBpdYwBiPLhoKZTI-JMGRK4IwuXc9gYLcRT/s320/Proverbs+Actual.jpg" width="216" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Peter Kreeft writes in the 'Foreword' :</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"The Proverbs of Middle-earth </span>is worth reading, for fun as well as for
(mental) profit. Those two are the twin purposes of books: literary critics
used to say that a book should ‘please and instruct,’ while an old Arabic
proverb says the same thing: ‘Before you shoot the arrow of truth, dip it
in honey.’ This book is both a quiver-full of well-pointed arrows, and a
large jar of honey. It is a romp, as well as a thorough and deeply penetrating exploration of its subject."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">"And for those, like me, who know that the longer you get to spend in
Middle-earth, the better, I hope that this book and its insights scratch a
hitherto-unseen itch, and that your future experience of Middle-earth is
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Arda, the world of which Middle-earth is but a part and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Lord Of The
Rings </span>only a chapter, is Tolkien’s Tree, discovered almost by accident as
he was busy painting leaves. The whole marvellous artwork remains as
unfinished as Niggle’s picture, but its details—the leaves—are exquisite, reflecting the near-obsessive priorities of their creator. In investigating one small aspect of the whole, this book is an exercise in leaf-love,
in delighting in the details over which Tolkien niggled."</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-14765620754809049262016-11-27T09:10:00.000+00:002016-11-27T09:10:30.523+00:00Just 3 days...<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Eala Earendel engla beorhtast
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> [Hail Earendel, brightest of angels]
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ofer middangeard monnum sended
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> [Above Middle-earth sent unto men]
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In his early twenties, Tolkien read the above lines for the rst time. They
are part of an eighth century devotional piece called <span style="font-style: italic;">Crist </span>(‘Christ’), writ-
ten in Anglo-Saxon by the poet Cynewulf, in which the planet Venus is
described in personal and angelic terms, using the name <span style="font-style: italic;">Earendel</span>. ‘I felt
a curious thrill,’ Tolkien later remembered, ‘as if something had stirred
in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and
strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Forty years later, now in Quenya, Cynewulf’s line reappears in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Two
Towers</span>: Frodo, holding the Starglass in the great darkness of Shelob’s
Lair, cries out <span style="font-style: italic;">Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!</span>—‘Hail Eärendil, brightest
of stars!’—a prayer to the mariner who sails the skies with a Silmaril
on his brow. The journey from a fragment of Old English to the pass of
Cirith Ungol mirrors the journey of Tolkien’s legendarium as a whole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 5 'The Half-Elven'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The history of Arda repeatedly shows that it is the <span style="font-style: italic;">libido dominandi</span>—the
lust for power—that corrupts. The virtue of creative liberty, inherent
in the Great Music, is twisted by the tyrannical desire to direct and
dictate. <span style="vertical-align: 3pt;"> </span>In Tolkien’s world, power—when it dominates or seeks to
dominate other wills and minds—is evil, but that doesn’t make it any
less tempting, even to good people."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #003b59; font-family: inherit;">"In the summer of 1911, Tolkien went on a walking holiday in the high Alps, during which he bought a postcard reproduction of a painting called </span><i style="color: #003b59; font-family: inherit;">Der</i><span style="color: #003b59; font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="color: #003b59; font-family: inherit;">Berggeist</i><span style="color: #003b59; font-family: inherit;">, ‘The Mountain Spirit’. The painting shows an old man with a white beard and long cloak sitting on a rock under a pine tree, and from whose hand a young deer is eating.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #003b59; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">According to Humphrey Carpenter, Tolkien ‘preserved this postcard carefully, and long afterwards he wrote on the paper cover in which he kept it: ‘Origin of Gandalf’.’ "</span><span style="color: #003b59; font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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Weathertop he sings a selection from the Lay Of Leithian (which he
clearly knows in multiple languages); faced with the Paths of the Dead
he recalls the prophetic-poetic words of Malbeth the Seer; and in the
Houses of Healing he recites a Rhyme of Lore:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘When the black breath blows </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and death’s shadow grows </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">and all lights pass,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">come athelas! come athelas! </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Life to the dying</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">In the king’s hand lying! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the same way that Gandalf would have recited and repeated such
lines and verses in his wanderings as an aid to memory, Aragorn has
taken the three strands of oral tradition—songs, stories, and sayings—
and made them his companions on his long road. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 11 - 'Aragorn'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"When Ingold bars Gandalf’s path at the Rammas, citing the proverb
<span style="font-style: italic;">Wish for no strangers in the land </span>as his justification, he is not being
rude, only professional. And when Gandalf does him the courtesy of
arguing his case—that Pippin, though a ‘stranger,’ should be admitted—
with a proverb that would appeal to the military mind (<span style="font-style: italic;">Valour... cannot
be computed by stature</span>), Ingold acquiesces and then honours Pippin’s
humility, saying <span style="font-style: italic;">Many a doer of great deeds might say no more</span>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 10 : 'The Peoples of Gondor'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Butterbur and Bree have a paradox at their heart: they are open yet closed; hospitable yet suspicious; well-informed yet small- minded and ignorant. This incongruity is not without its causes. Bree is a welcoming place because it has to be – valuable income is generated from the business of Outsiders – but at the same time, Outside is also where all things dark and dangerous originate, things to be avoided at all costs. Pulled in both directions at once (and with no military strength nor any other means by which to defendthemselves), the underlying fears of the Bree-folk cause them to </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #003b59;">hold anything untoward or alien at arms length ... "</span></span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: inherit;">"On
the long march from Emyn Muil to Mount Doom, Frodo knows that he cannot rely on
Sam for more than companionable stolidity, and he is wary of trusting Gollum at
all. Proverbs therefore become his primary counsellor at need. <i>Better mistrust undeserved than rash words</i><span style="font-size: small;">,
he reminds himself when longing and fearing to open up to Faramir; </span><i>Do not be too eager to deal out death in the
name of justice</i><span style="font-size: small;"> rings through his memory when presented with the chance to
kill Gollum; and </span><i>The servant has a claim
on the master for service, even service in fear</i><span style="font-size: small;"> comes to mind when wishing
to be free of his wretched guide."</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">From Chapter 1 : "'The Hobbits'</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oloris Publishing are now taking pre-publication orders. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">"</span>Saruman’s sayings act as a rhetorical technique to shut down debate and to silence others. In this way, he tells the future king of Rohan 'Meddle not in policies which you do not understand', and has the gall to address 'Does an unarmed man come down to speak to robbers out of doors?' to the wizard whom he imprisoned and the king whose kingdom he invaded."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 4 : 'The Istari'<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>David Rowe</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Whilst not being particularly remarkable in other ways, the Bree-hobbits were famous for, and proud of, being the originators of an addictive art: the smoking of sweet galenas or pipe-weed͛. This habit, championed in Bree, spread around the known world from that acknowledged epicentre."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 3: 'The Breelanders'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>David Rowe</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Put Hobbits in counsels of war, discerning the devices of evil, and they will fall silent. But get them discussing ale (Proper fourteen-twenty!) or bath-times (A loon is he that will not sing), rivers (Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still) or baby-names (Make it short, then you won't have to cut it short), and a wealth of tried-and-tested sayings leap forth."</span></div>
</span><div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From Chapter 1 : 'The Hobbits'</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oloris Publishing</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;"><b>... and we have a cover image too.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Bilbo’s
‘as my father used to say’,<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span>Sam’s ‘as my Gaffer used to say’<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span>and Pippin’s ‘as we say in the Shire’<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span>point to an underlying assumption that
inherited tradition carries special weight and authority.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">From Chapter 1 : 'The Hobbits"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"></span><b>David Rowe </b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oloris Publishing</span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-42407672618025008512016-11-16T07:47:00.003+00:002016-11-16T07:48:11.365+00:0014 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'[Hobbits] have a fund of wisdom and wise sayings that men have mostly never heard or have f</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">orgotten long ago.' </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(JRRT – The Hobbit, p.83) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-40903184058245744162016-11-15T07:48:00.001+00:002016-11-15T07:48:17.332+00:0015 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“The leaf-mould of Tolkien’s mind was extraordinarily rich. Like Niggle’s Tree, which started simply only to outgrow even its creator’s capacity to complete it, Arda’s vast tapestry had a long germination process and took on a life of its own…”<b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the 'Introduction"</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oloris Publishing</span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-20519672619254166542016-11-14T09:01:00.001+00:002016-11-14T09:01:25.563+00:0016 days (revised) to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 9pt; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />‘Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.’ </span></i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(JRRT – The Lord of the Rings, p. 365)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>David Rowe</b></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-29123097417889653602016-11-12T20:56:00.004+00:002016-11-12T20:56:36.274+00:00Day 17 (revised) to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What we quickly discover is that Tolkien did not merely create hundreds of erudite, apposite, and funny sayings – however great an artistic achievement that is – he also invented entire wisdom traditions in which these sayings belong.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the 'Introduction'</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oloris Publishing</span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-32660310274183528642016-11-12T07:29:00.003+00:002016-11-12T07:30:23.682+00:00Day 18 (revised) to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“… what is undeniable is that Middle-earth has hundreds of proverbs. Scattered throughout the Tolkien corpus we hear proverbial-sounding sayings in the mouths of every culture and people.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the 'Introduction'</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oloris Publishing</span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-81247043905904633352016-11-11T08:37:00.000+00:002016-11-11T08:37:01.875+00:00Day 19 (revised) - 19 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #003b59; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Reference to oral tradition is therefore akin to quoting a favourite poet or orator, except that it is not an individual whose wisdom is being cited, but an entire culture. ‘As my old Gaffer used to say…’ is not Sam Gamgee crediting his father as the inventor of an insight, but recognising the person from whom one aspect of Hobbit-sense was most often, or most memorably, received.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the 'Introduction'</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oloris Publishing</span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-2307807860823006702016-11-10T08:09:00.003+00:002016-11-10T08:09:47.485+00:00Day 20 (revised) - 20 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #003b59; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Proverbs are vessels of transmission, the ships in which wisdom sails. They come into being because of the tremendous value of hard-won wisdom, and the consequent need to pass it on. In the words of Sophocles, wisdom ‘outweighs any wealth’, and in order to share that wealth – to avoid the need for every individual in every generation to relearn the same lessons from scratch – a method or means to preserve and communicate is required.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the 'Introduction'</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #003b59; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oloris Publishing</span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-19737645298430137952016-11-09T07:44:00.004+00:002016-11-09T07:44:46.937+00:00Day 21 (revised) - 21 days to the publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth"<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: inherit;">"While
the proverbs identified in this volume are limited to those from books
published in Tolkien’s lifetime – <i>The
Hobbit</i> and <i>The Lord Of The Rings </i>–
this does not reflect the full range of Arda’s proverbial depth. <i>The Silmarillion</i>, <i>Unfinished Tales</i>, and <i>The
Children Of Húrin </i>each contain a further treasure trove of proverbial
material, demonstrating that Tolkien’s commitment to convincing inner reality
was not a late addition..."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the 'Introduction'</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: #003b59; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</span></b></div>
<div style="color: #003b59; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">To be released by Oloris Publishing on the 30th November. </span></b></div>
<div style="color: #003b59; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Advance orders now being taken.</span></b></div>
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tolkien’s
original hope, to provide a mythology for his beloved but generally legend-free
England, was far more than a quest for exciting stories. He believed that the
creative process of myth-making is nothing short of a sacred task; that humans
have a special responsibility to reflect their Creator by becoming
sub-creators.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the 'Introduction'</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">David Rowe</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>To be released by Oloris Publishing on the 30th November. </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Advance orders now being taken.</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694856.post-48572220856287525252016-11-07T09:30:00.002+00:002016-11-07T09:32:26.626+00:00"The Proverbs of Middle-earth" is delayed by a fortnight.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unfortunately Oloris have delayed publication of "The Proverbs of Middle-earth' by a fortnight... here are the details:<br />
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