Libri Tulliae: Autumn skies and flowers...

J.R.R. Tolkien to C.S. Lewis; September 1931

"To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of "trees" and "stars" saw them very differently. To them the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was "myth-woven and elf-patterned." ~Humphrey Carpenter; The Inklings

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Autumn skies and flowers...

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