Archive for January, 2011

A Better Way to Defeat Sauron

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

I would never want to change how The Lord of Rings saga actually unfolded, and all that Frodo and his companions had to go through in order to bring peace to Middle Earth, but just the same, perhaps, as the following video demonstrates, there was a better way to defeat Sauron. *******

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Still Point of the Turning World

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

A line has been consistently popping into my head, “At the still point of the turning world.” I spent one semester reading T.S. Eliot, and I have since been haunted by his words, and honestly, I have contributed to this haunting as time and again I have gone back to read various sections of Ash […]

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Book Whore

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

About three months ago I started reading G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and just today I made it to the last chapter. Why did it take so long to get to this point? It’s not a particularly difficult read, although it’s not easy reading either. So, am I a slow reader? Actually, yes, but that’s not why […]

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