Why did the managing editor of Patheos Faith and Work begin a yearly tradition of reading The Lord of the Rings during Advent? Years ago—thirteen of them, to be exact—I was an eager graduate student in my late 20s, the first Lord of the Rings movie was coming out, and I was dating an excitable, well-read chatterbox of a Tolkien fan. (We’ve now been married for over a decade.) I’d read the famous saga once in my college days, and as a proposed date-at-the-movies rolled around, I thought it best to refresh my memory of what lurked between the fairly wide-spread covers of what had recently been named the 20th century’s greatest book. When I started to read on the first Sunday of Advent, I fell into the sweep of the story’s battle between good and evil, and I climbed out at some point in March. The next December as the beginning of the church year rolled around again, I picked up the book again and went down the rabbit hole (or should I say hobbit hole?) once more. - Jennifer Woodruff Tate for The High Calling. Read more at: thehighcalling.org/work/through-year-hobbits-and-hope
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:00:01 +0000
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