Tolkien Tuesdays #1
Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.
My friend at Vox Vendsel has been doing a great job in posting C.S. Lewis Sundays. I love reading the quotes chosen. Being unorginal myself, and I hope she won’t mind, but I’m going to steal the idea just a little bit and create Tolkien Tuesdays. (I will probably be less regular about it, but I’ll try anyway.)
I’m much more of a Tolkienite than Lewisian. I think we are a smaller portion of the population at large, but that doesn’t mean we can’t glean insights from both of these friends.
With apologies to Vox, here is Tolkien Tuesday #1, in honor of Election Day.
“Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.”
“The most improper job of any man, even saints…is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
From a letter to his son Christopher