The Purpose of Life According to J.R.R. Tolkien
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Deacon Nick
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January 5, 2013
In 1969, Camilla Unwin, daughter of publisher Rayner Unwin, asked J.R.R. Tolkien to help her with a school project by giving an answer to the question, “What is the purpose of life?”
After a fairly lengthy letter, Tolkien gets to the heart of his response:
“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.”
— The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Humphrey Carter, ed. (page 400)
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Deacon Nick
Nick Senger is a husband, a father of four, a Roman Catholic deacon and a Catholic school principal. He taught junior high literature and writing for over 25 years, and has been a Catholic school educator since 1990. In 2001 he was named a Distinguished Teacher of the Year by the National Catholic Education Association.
