The Chief Purpose of Life (according to J.R.R. Tolkien)
"So it may be said that the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks."
~J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to Camilla Unwin - May 20 (which, by the way, is my birthday), 1969
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"The preciousss... the extended isss... iss the preciousss!!"
that's interesting phraseology: "by all means we have..."
who was camilla unwin?
The answer to your question is Camilla Unwin was the daughter of Tolkien's publisher, Rayner Unwin. She had been assigned a school project of writing a paper on the theme, "What is the purpose of life?", and she turned to Tolkien for advice.
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we must have the precioussss! we must have its befores everyone else!
you guys are WAY too addicted! :)
michelle