Happy Birthday Tolkien!

Happy 116 Birthday to J.R.R. Tolkien!

Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973

"One Ring to Rule them all,

One Ring to find them,

One Ring to bring them all,

And in the darkness, bind them."

~J.R.R. Tolkien

"It's a job never started that takes the longest to finish".

~J.R.R. Tolkien

"Little by little, one travels far."

~J.R.R. Tolkien

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

~Tolkien

"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I place before you the one great thing to love on earth: The Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: Death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the complete surrender of all, and yet by the taste of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships be maintained, or take on the complexity of reality, or eternal endurance, which every man's heart desires."

~ John Ronald Reuel Tolkien