from my tolkien class
“You can see whenever you push very hard on Tolkien’s concepts, whenever you begin to really start asking ‘what are the implications of this statement,’ ‘what are the implications of this term that he uses,’ you pretty quickly get down to his Christian worldview.”
“The law by which the human soul yearns after its true heavenly home is as inescapable as the law of gravity that pulls rocks down to the earth. That’s what we’re made of. That’s where we come from. And that’s where we long to return to.” - Corey Olsen
“The law by which the human soul yearns after its true heavenly home is as inescapable as the law of gravity that pulls rocks down to the earth. That’s what we’re made of. That’s where we come from. And that’s where we long to return to.” - Corey Olsen
posted by melilotnfosco | 8:39 PM
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are you taking another class?
i's the one i talked about forever ago but i had to pause in my listening cuz i didn't have the book i needed and then the book could only be found in england so i had to get it from there and then i had to be able to be awake enough to focus on reading difficult tolkienness so it took me awhile before i could finally get around to listening to the next lecture
i think that was a sign from God that you should have gone to england. next time, you should listen.
there is another i need that's only there. perhaps you're right.
“The law by which the human soul yearns after its true heavenly home is as inescapable as the law of gravity that pulls rocks down to the earth." -- I like this law. :) And I like that some people can put this stuff into words. I can't. Or at least, not nearly as well.
Re: England, should I go with you? Granted, it'd have to be a Tolkien AND HP trip, but there are Tolkien influences in HP, aren't there? So that could be our excuse. :)
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