Tolkien

Justin Taylor’s Hope

by Phillip on May 2, 2012

A couple of favorite quotes from Justin Taylor’s blog, Between Two Worlds: Everything Sad Will Come Untrue “Is everything sad going to come untrue?” —Sam Gamgee to Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings (chapter 4, Book Six)   “[Some mortals] say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing […]

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“Eu-Catastrophe”: The Good Ending

by Phillip on April 7, 2012

Eucatastrophe:  a sudden and favorable resolution of events in a story; a happy ending. ORIGIN mid 20th cent.: said to have been coined by J. R. R. Tolkien Stories can be categorized by what were called by the Greeks as either “tragedies” or “comedies”.  Without going into all the literary implications a tragedy is simply […]

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