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I also like what you've done on this part of the assignment. Long arrows like these really do need labels to help the viewer/reader to move from one post to the next. 

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I also like what you've done on this part of the assignment. Long arrows like these really do need labels to help the viewer/reader to move from one post to the next. 

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I also like what you've created here in this part of the assignment. The arrows are good, but I'd encourage you to use labels on them. I put a label on the "B-day of Mary" to show you what this could look like here. 

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I also like what you've created here in this part of the assignment. The arrows are good, but I'd encourage you to use labels on them. I put a label on the "B-day of Mary" to show you what this could look like here. 

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I really like how extensive your reflections are here. The balanced blend of text and thoughtful images show me that you gained much from our exploration of LOTR. But the layout seems a bit crowed and I imagine there are ways to use the spacing and arrows to increase the visual impact of your work here. 

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I really like how extensive your reflections are here. The balanced blend of text and thoughtful images show me that you gained much from our exploration of LOTR. But the layout seems a bit crowed and I imagine there are ways to use the spacing and arrows to increase the visual impact of your work here. 

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Woman, Behold your Son
Behold your Mother

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-She reflects his light
-Our love for her strengthens our love for him

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She could be called the perfect disciple

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-Gives birth  to Jesus after the vision of the lost Arc returning
-She houses the Word of God

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Associated with cosmic struggle because of a war that breaks out between the angles

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Revelation mentions Mary’s crowning

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Father Mike

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Bishop Barron

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December 12

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December 25

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Saturday after Christmas

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December 8

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November 21

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October 7

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September 15

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August 22

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August 15

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July 16

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Saturday following the Second Sunday after Pentecost

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May 31

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March 25

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February 11

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January 1

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Elven cloaks were given to all nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring, woven for them by Galadriel herself and her maidens.

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The planes are meshed when the threads from the human world are woven with "magical" elements to create these beautiful and mysterious robes. This could be related to Jesus' human and divine natures.

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The Horns of Rohan and Eorl provide hope when all is lost. All though these horns do not possess any magical qualities, and are human made in the story, they provide a sacramental effect by helping us through difficult times and teaching us not to give up on God when we are frustrated because of how something may turn out

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A type is a person, place, thing, or institution that foreshadows one of the aspects of Jesus Christ to come in the New Testament. The Lembas Bread could be viewed as a pre-Christian type because of sacramental meaning along with its originality in the pre-Christian world - Middle Earth.

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Catholics understand the Eucharist different than Lembas Bread because the Eucharist is consumed within specific liturgical context of the mass. As it seems, Sam and Froto were cured of their hunger on their long journey after eating this bread, while the Eucharist does not have magic powers. Fr. Charles still considers this a sacramental because it has unexplainable properties that convert to physical qualities

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The Kingsfoil in Lord of the RIngs was a healing herb that grew in Middle Earth. The Herb was thought to be more powerful in the hands of the king, like how the holy oil is given its power through a priest. Kingsfoil was used to heal Froto's stab wound, just as Anointing of the Sick is used to help people who are possibly on their death bed.

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Father Charles believes that the "elvish artifacts" are key elements of the sacramental world view because the invisible and visible merge. The elvish robes are not magical, but sacramental. The robes serve a purpose of representing the beauty of the physical and spiritual aspects of within Catholicism.

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Very well done! I like the answers and thanks for trying different types of posts here too. I like the quotes and other images too.

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"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future"

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"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future"

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- Galadriel

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The Two Towers Soundtrack-19-Gollum's Song

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This is a very interesting story

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Years ago, we began listening to Catholic radio for no reason-ironically, like as a joke, we thought. And then we started going to Midnight Mass on Christmas eve just to experience it. Our family would ask, "which one of you is Catholic?" to which we'd shrug, neither of us. We're just doing all of this Catholic stuff for no reason, for fun, we thought to ourselves. And around that time, in the earliest beginnings of our inadvertent journey into the Catholic Church, I somehow discovered that J.R.R. Tolkien had been a devout Catholic. And for some reason, it stuck with me. I joked with my husband, "if it's good enough for Tolkien,
it's good enough for me."

"if it's good enough for Tolkien,
it's good enough for me."

But I couldn't stop thinking about it, really. This was a man who, though I had never met, I had great respect for. He was kind of my hero. And the world he created was filled with so much truth and goodness - so where did it come from? He depicts so perfectly the innocence of hobbits, the destructive lust for power and glory, the heroic value of suffering and dying to oneself, the beauty of life and our duty to preserve it, and the slow rot as evil creeps into our hearts and minds.

Christianity is so thoroughly woven into every aspect of The Lord of the Rings; it must have been written, I had decided, by someone who was thoroughly steeped in Christian truth. I had known he was a Christian, or assumed as much given his themes of redemption and his Christ-like characters. But I had assumed, like me, he was a Protestant Christian.

So imagine my surprise when I learned The Lord of the Rings was written by a Catholic. A devoted one, at that.

There is something to be said about knowing someone of a certain religion, worldview, or lifestyle that makes it feels so much more reasonable, tangible, understandable. And through his published works and letters, I felt like I knew him. Before Tolkien, I had never known a Catholic; I hadn't even known of a Catholic, really.

My childhood had been relatively devoid of them; I had never been evangelized by one, as I had been by by members of other denominations and religions. I had attended a non-denomination high school where I believed what I was taught about The Church without question: Catholicism is un-Christian. For these reasons, considering Catholicism was never even an option or possibility in my mind.

But there I was, letting this concept sink into my brain.

Tolkien was Catholic - on purpose - so maybe this whole thing deserved a little thought on my part.

I was in my early twenties, searching for truth, and was beginning to realize this might be a good place to look.

There were a few more years to go before my husband and I were confirmed into the Church, and many more hours of praying and softening my heart and reading the Bible, the Catechism, and the Church Fathers. But this, in a small way, may have been my first step.

As I've grown in my faith and my love for Middle-Earth, echos of Tolkien's Catholicism have become even more apparent throughout The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. I've come to recognize the life-sustaining grace of the Eucharist in the Elven Lembas. In the beauty and strength of Elbereth Gilthoniel and Lady Galadriel, I catch a glimpse of Our Lady, whom Tolkien was quite devoted to.

""I think I know exactly what you mean by the order of Grace; and of course by your references to Our Lady, upon which all my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded."
- Letters of Tolkien

Middle-Earth is not based in allegory, as Tolkien himself was quite annoyed by it, but it is woven with Catholic truths. He explained, in his letter quoted below, that it was unintentional at first but intentional in revision. For anyone who might not have grown up in a Christian home or within the Catholic Church, the elements which make The Lord of the Rings a Catholic work can be such a beautiful and encouraging starting point in a quest for truth.

"The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism. However that is very clumsily put, and sounds more self-important than I feel. For as a matter of fact, I have consciously planned very little; and should chiefly be grateful for having been brought up (since I was eight) in a Faith that has nourished me and taught me all the little that I know; and that I owe to my mother, who clung to her conversion and died young, largely through the hardships of poverty resulting from it."
- Letters of Tolkien

More on Tolkien & Catholicism:

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How Tolkien's Middle-Earth Introduced Me to Catholicism - Tea with Tolkien

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Years ago, we began listening to Catholic radio for no reason-ironically, like as a joke, we thought. And then we started going to Midnight Mass on Christmas eve just to experience it. Our family would ask, "which one of you is Catholic?" to which we'd shrug, neither of us.

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I like the saying on this - it shows that even the smallest things God creates can be beautiful and strong

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I think this picture helps explain question two.

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The first example of Catholicism in Lord of the Rings is Gandolf having Jesus like characteristics. In the series, he is tempted by Saruman, who can be compared to the devil, just like Jesus was tempted by Satan. Another example of Catholicism present is in the Ring. The Ring corrupts the good from the world and can be generally compared to as evil, or a temptation. The cause of fighting and evil in this series stems from the ring. The third example is that the main characters experience suffering just as Jesus did here on earth. Some of them suffer for the good or all, but others suffer because they have to. They have to sacrifice in order to save the world/

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Deprived is to be taken away from or kept from. Depraved is evil or immoral. What I have learned about sin is that sin deprives us from a life with God. SIn separates God from us, but we aren't completely depraved. God is still willing to help keep a lot of the evil away from us. Unfortunately, sin in the world is unpreventable, and as humans, we will experience it.

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I think that this quote means that the light is still there but we don't see the lamp. Through the light, we know that the lamp exists. The shows the Catholic imagination by showing how we see God in the world. We see God's light, children ad creation in his world. We see symbols every day of God, but we won't see God until we reach Heaven.

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I think that this quote means that Jesus died on the cross so that we could live in communion with him in Heaven. The more we open ourselves up and help people on earth, the more we become like Jesus.