'Tolkien' Trailer For J.R.R. Tolkien Biopic Puts A Ring On it

Huffington Post ^ | 20 February 2019 | Ron Dicker

[I-ambush]

Chesterton, who was not an Inkling, but influenced Lewis directly and was also admired by Tolkien, referred to Christianity as “true mythology.”

[I-ambush]

I read that in college in the late 70s

[Mrs. Don-o]

bttt

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve always thought that the ability to imagine and create from imagination is what makes us ‘in His image’.

[Hebrews 11:6]

The twenty-page argument by Satan/Weston in Perelandra is as fine an exposé as I've found--certainly among Lewis's best writing.

[central_va]

I think ‘Dune’ comes close.

[Jamestown1630]

Chesterton wrote one of my all-time favorite poems:

The Donkey

When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.

With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings
The devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.

The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.

Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.

[sparklite2]

I like the rhythm of that.  It reminds me of

 La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
By John Keats

You might like it, too.

[I-ambush]

I like that one too

[Jamestown1630]

I’ll check it out.

I care most about the words, and how perceiving their meaning sends a chill down your spine, makes the hairs of your neck stand up.

Robert Graves understood this...true poetry acts almost as a magical incantation.

I think that’s why so many are partial to the KJV.

[Jamestown1630]

Another of my favorites:

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things —
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins

[sparklite2]

I care most about the words, and how perceiving their meaning sends a chill down your spine, makes the hairs of your neck stand up.

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In that case, read it sooner.

[Jamestown1630]

LOL!

I will.

[Jamestown1630]

Huh. That’s creepy.

I need to go back and re-read my Arthur Machen.