https://simplysusan.com.au/my-journey-with-lotr/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-journey-with-lotr Musing thru Marriage, Motherhood & Mess Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:31:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 https://simplysusan.com.au/my-journey-with-lotr/#comment-299 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:31:10 +0000 http://susanpriolo.com/blog/?p=292#comment-299 […] would like to read the dialogue preceding this post, please see the post I originally commented on here and the follow-up post […]

]]> https://simplysusan.com.au/my-journey-with-lotr/#comment-298 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:41:04 +0000 http://susanpriolo.com/blog/?p=292#comment-298 I read LOTR in high school and it is one of my all time favorites. One of my cherished memories was reading it to my children before the movies came out. Now, my son and I are reading Beowulf and we are having so much fun searching for Middle Earth in that classic epic. Tolkien admired and taught Beowulf, which bubbles up to the surface in LOTR.

]]> https://simplysusan.com.au/my-journey-with-lotr/#comment-297 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:29:33 +0000 http://susanpriolo.com/blog/?p=292#comment-297 Interesting POV. (I personally haven’t read LOTR and unfortunately, I don’t know what FOTR means, but I will keep this in mind as my children get older.) Precious woman of God, I’m mostly concerned and a bit conflicted inside about your thoughts of the Bible and character issues. I’m not saying that I totally disagree with what you said about teaching character traits from people. I love to read fictional stories and biographies for character lessons and use them quite often. And I definitely think that teaching character without modeling isn’t effective, if not useless. But, without the Word of God? You said, “I don?t teach my children character traits from the Bible.” I uphold the Bible as Truth and believe in training up my children using Scriptures. I want to teach God’s ways, not man’s opinions, and the only way to do this is to know Truth (by reading and applying the lessons learned from the Bible – being doers of the Word, not just hearers). God never changes, but man does. I probably just completely misunderstood the point you were trying to make. And I apologize in advance if I am misunderstanding you – I really do not want to offend you. I believe I’ve been to your blog before and have found it quite enjoyable. I don’t remember if I’ve left another comment. I’m very sorry if this is my first comment. (I was just thinking that I would rather people leave me a comment, even if they disagree, than to just leave my blog shaking their head.) Bless you!

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