tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36102455.post336601813638873360..comments2024-03-05T17:51:15.555-09:00Comments on flameinthesnow: leaves of goldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36102455.post-6890921776917722602015-09-21T07:52:31.248-08:002015-09-21T07:52:31.248-08:00Was it early for the colors to appear in your gard...Was it early for the colors to appear in your garden? Here, too, the colors this Autumn have been varied and the leaves deserve at least a song--<br /><br />Never have I sat at table in The Eagle & Child, but Tolkien was the third author I discovered as a small child, after the author of Dick & Jane and then E.B. White. The beauty of the language and the mythic worlds mesmerized me until I convinced my sister to join in the game, and we even drew maps of Middle Earth while playing in the sandbox. Lothlorien always held an especial fascination for me.<br /><br />This year I re-read the words of all of the Inklings -- Charles Williams, too -- and new insights appear --Iulia Flamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06962212081437398247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36102455.post-71224490579962039402015-09-21T07:35:33.729-08:002015-09-21T07:35:33.729-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Iulia Flamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06962212081437398247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36102455.post-91696968537988341692015-09-20T14:15:29.380-08:002015-09-20T14:15:29.380-08:00Those leaves that turn from natures green ….. a mi...Those leaves that turn from natures green ….. a mind inspiring piece ... We sat upon our chairs around an old wood table in an Oxford Tavern (The Eagle & Child)<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagle_and_Child<br /><br />Where in history, before us sat, the minds of - Tolkien, C.S.Lewis & a bunch of other souls, all imbibed in the late night supping of their fledgling aspirations.<br /><br />At our garden end, in small pockets, those leaves of green began to mimic extreme automotive metallic colours mid-way through our August month ... <br /><br /> Harlequinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11143158401232798217noreply@blogger.com