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  • October 7, 2019 at 7:29 pm #113860
    mom3
    Participant

    Okay – we can work through details all we want, but lets give a big hand to The Silver Fox, for outdoing himself and canonizing The Hobbit.

    This may go down as the best talk in General Conference Ever. Ever.

    No one better to deliver it.

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    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/general-conference/2019/10/media/6092703651001?lang=eng

    October 7, 2019 at 9:55 pm #238663
    DarkJedi
    Participant

    I did like it. I just re-read The Hobbit this summer. And, he again echoed “Come, Join With Us” which has special significance for me.

    October 7, 2019 at 11:34 pm #238664
    Old-Timer
    Keymaster

    It definitely was one of my favorites.

    October 8, 2019 at 3:54 am #238665
    mom3
    Participant

    I spend hours dreaming of the day he’s in the top chair. The happiness he brings – ah, hmmm. Okay. Back to life.

    October 9, 2019 at 1:18 am #238666
    Daughter1
    Participant

    I’ve told people for years that I have two “quad combinations.” The LDS scriptures and my Lotr/Hobbit box set. Elder Uchtdorf just confirmed that this is perfectly acceptable. :D

    October 10, 2019 at 1:04 pm #238667
    Heavy_Laden
    Participant

    I enjoyed this talk and wish that we could hear more from Uchtdorf. I am not a big fan of the Hobbit series but I would love to hear him draw comparisons on the Star Wars Universe and the Gospel. Maybe I should send him some DVDs and some expanded universe stuff to get him started?

    By the way, I’ll be posting a mega blog entry on Star Wars and the church sometime in the future. :D

    October 10, 2019 at 1:49 pm #238668
    SamBee
    Participant

    Well CS Lewis gets quoted a lot, so Tolkien should be up there too, because a lot of his symbolism is Christian (albeit somewhat RC). Charles Williams and George MacDonald are somewhat overlooked too.

    October 10, 2019 at 6:15 pm #238669
    DarkJedi
    Participant

    Heavy_Laden wrote:


    I enjoyed this talk and wish that we could hear more from Uchtdorf. I am not a big fan of the Hobbit series but I would love to hear him draw comparisons on the Star Wars Universe and the Gospel. Maybe I should send him some DVDs and some expanded universe stuff to get him started?

    By the way, I’ll be posting a mega blog entry on Star Wars and the church sometime in the future. :D

    While he didn’t make the direct connection to Star Wars, the language in this quote is very close to Obi Wan:

    Quote:

    The “truths” we cling to shape the quality of our societies as well as our individual characters. All too often these “truths” are based on incomplete and inaccurate evidence, and at times they serve very selfish motives.


    (BYU Devotional Jan. 13, 2013, great talk)

    October 18, 2019 at 1:57 pm #238670
    brit-exmo
    Participant

    Not the first to link Tolkien and LDS

    https://www.academia.edu/10177115/A_Latter-day_Saint_reading_of_Tolkien

    October 19, 2019 at 6:41 am #238671
    Heber13
    Participant

    :clap:

    Love it!!

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