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santee116
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Apr 9 2012, 3:55am
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"A Day of Running" Happy Easter from Samwise...
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My priest (a huge LOTR fan) worked Samwise Gangee into a recent Easter Sermon. (Skip to 9:54 for the impatient)
Happy Easter and God Bless:
http://www.holycomforter.net/audio/Sermon%20Barr%2004-24-11.mp3
(This post was edited by santee116 on Apr 9 2012, 3:57am)
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dernwyn
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Apr 9 2012, 12:06pm
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when religious leaders who are fellow geeks work Tolkien into their sermons! That's a perfect example to use for Easter: the eucatastrophe.
My pastor once worked Sam's "If I take another step..." from the movies into a sermon. Later she confessed to me that she got a kick out of seeing who in the congregation had a "recognition reaction"! 
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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Gollum the Great
Rohan
Apr 10 2012, 1:38am
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One of my earliest memories of LOTR...
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long before I had any idea what a hobbit was or a Samwise or a Frodo, my pastor used LOTR as a sermon illustration. I was probably 7 or eight at the time.
He talked about Gandalf "dying" sacrificially, and some guy named Frodo (weird name) doing something that would probably lead to his death, and his servant Sam trying to follow his master even though he couldn't swim (I assumed he drowned).
Not understanding most of this, I came to the conclusion that Lord of the Rings was a story in which mostly everyone died.
Little did I know that years later, I would be a die-hard fan....
Lord Sméagol? Gollum the Great? The Gollum! Eat fish every day, three times a day; fresh from the sea. Most Precious Gollum!
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