Professor Tolkien

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

-The Land of Shadow, Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Inspired by Nathan Yoder's (@nathanyoder ) magnificent likeness of Lewis, and in-between all the usual things, I have been scratching away at Professor Tolkien here for a couple of days now. At some point, I suppose, I need to consider it done, but here it is thus far.