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Veni, Sancti SpiritusBlack, gold, sepia ink, watercolors
December 27, 2010
This was one of the last Christmas gifts I managed to get done. I gave it to my confirmation sponsor's family.
It's the Veni, Sancti Spiritus prayer written in Tengwar. I know I made quite a few mistakes, so if anybody is geeky enough to try and transliterate this... You'll see.
But mostly, I think it's fairly accurate. Done in the tehtar mode (with the vowels on top of the consonants). It reads in Latin....
Veni, Sancte Spiritus,
reple tuorum corda fidelium: et tui amoris in eis ignem accende.
V. Emitte Spiritum tuum, et creabuntur.
R. Et renovabis faciem terrae.
Oremus. Deus, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti: da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere; et de eius semper consolatione gaudere. Per Christum, Dominum nostrum.
And in English...
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Let us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Sadly I cannot read the Tengwar script. But are you aware that Tolkien translated the Pater noster and the Ave Maria and a few other prayers into Quenya? www.jrrvf.com/glaemscrafu/engl…
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I think he might. 
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Always thought they should open his case up...
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Me too. They already have John Henry Newman canonized, and G.K. Chesterton is being considered. Why not Tolkien? Unfortunately it seems like writers of fiction can be a bit overlooked by people who offer a person up for canonization.
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Yeah. Artists and writers are a gigantic minority among the canon of saints. 
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lol 
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Nope. I should look that up. And they've opened Ronald Knox up too, all these British guys from the same general time period (but Newman and Knox were cardinals, at least I'm pretty sure Knox was, so...).
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To me, the first half of the 20th century, especially between about 1880-1970, with its wonderful Catholic saintly figures like Newman, Knox, Tolkien and Chesterton, is similar to the Counter-Reformation figures - Borromeo, Ignatius of Loyola, the Jesuits, Thomas More, Francis de Sales, etc. But, I seriously think Tolkien should be opened up for canonization.
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And they were certainly very needed at that time, to combat the past philosophies during the enlightenment and the myriad of modern heresies springing up, and to prepare us for what we're dealing with now. Chesterton for instance, in my opinion, is more relevant today than he was in his own time.
If St. Jerome, who strikes me as rather marvelously hotheaded and irascible, can be canonized, I think Tolkien definitely should be. If anything just for his work on Middle-earth. I think we will never quite realize the impact those books will have and have already had on the world. As Dostoyevsky says: the world will be saved by beauty.
JP 2 would easily have done it I think.
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I certainly agree, especially about Chesterton - hence why they call him "the prophet of orthodoxy". While reading his essays I see so many times where he discusses issues that are far more relevant now than they were then.
Wonderful quote, and absolutely true about Tolkien. I think it would be wrong to require a saint to focus entirely on nonfiction to be considered for canonization. I can say definitively that Tolkien was my first encounter with Catholicism, and with religion at all, and it was a guiding force that led me to convert. If someone had just handed me a Summa, I would've discarded it. Faith gives understanding, but to me, art can inspire the "longing" for Heaven, as Tolkien described faerie.
lol Yes John Paul canonized quite a few. I think Benedict is a more reserved person in general, which isn't a bad thing of course. He is one of my favorite teachers and his Jesus of Nazareth book was one of my first Catholic learning experiences. I just think no one considers Tolkien because he almost exclusively wrote fiction, which is unfortunate to me.
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Chesterton for president!
Wow, now that really is spectacular. I am going to keep track of that little bit "I can say definitively that Tolkien was my first encounter with Catholicism, and with religion at all, and it was a guiding force that led me to convert. If someone had just handed me a Summa, I would've discarded it. Faith gives understanding, but to me, art can inspire the "longing" for Heaven, as Tolkien described faerie."
Tolkien really does get that "longing" the sensucht that Lewis writes about.
"You have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you have been looking for all your life; and then turned to the friend at your side who appears to be seeing what you saw—but at the first words a gulf yawns between you, and you realise that this landscape means something totally different to him, that he is pursuing an alien vision and cares nothing for the ineffable suggestion by which you are transported . . . All the things that have deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it—tantalising glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest—if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself—you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.' We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want . . . which we shall still desire on our deathbeds . . . Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it—made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand." (from the Problem of Pain).
Yeah, that's a shame that he is overlooked. Btw, Kreeft has some wonderful stuff on Tolkien.
But you know, I think Tolkien's work really actually goes beyond mere literature and fiction. It starts to dabble in something all too real and it starts to wander out of myth and into truth.
For me, Tolkien was also a prime motivation in my faith. I think I can say I sort of "discovered" God by accident through Tolkien, even though I was wholly unaware that I had been looking for Him. Tolkien has really led me into the mystical life, because he inspired that longing, the sensucht, eh?
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lol Nice, definitely a suitable response for politics 
Wow, another wonderful quote from Lewis. He was such an amazing writer, especially able to use fictitious methods like metaphor, allegory and parable to convey a deep truth, as he did here and with work like the Screwtape Letters, one of my favorites. As Pope Benedict said, in his Christmas homily last year, beauty is "being surprised by God".
Oh really? I'm sure that would be a great combo, two great authors.
To Tolkien, myth can convey truth in a way that philosophy often cannot - hence why the Book of Revelation and Christ's parables are in the Bible. It can illustrate truth, make it real and alive, through the images in our mind as Lewis said. Tolkien said that Christianity is a true myth, where God has communicated through Creation, directly, even living in it. He always viewed his work as a sacred task, from the very beginning.
Absolutely, I totally share that, and I can affirm that others have experienced it too. I was an atheist, malevolently opposed to God, but encountering Tolkien gave me a sort of ambiguous beacon throughout my conversion. I really think it would be sad if writing fiction didn't count as heroic virtue in the canonization process - he should at least be Venerable, even if forever.
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Yes, that's right. Beauty is being surprised by God.
Yeah, Tolkien's thoughts on myth have been one of my chief fascinations for many years now.
It's sort of a way of getting the Faith past the castle guards and the moat and under the castle walls, as it were.
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I believe that kind of beauty you describe, a beauty unfiltered by subjectivity, is called "sublime".
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This... is... Sparta TENGWAR!!!!!
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SOOOOOO COOL!!!!
I assume you just wrote it out in English and THEN wrote it in Twengar, right? Or did you do it in Latin and then write that in Twengar?
Very smooth, very lovely calligraphy. Definitely one of your less "messy" ones.
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Latin, then Tengwar. Because Latin is legit. And this was going to my confirmation sponsor, who also happened to be my religion teacher from last year, and we started with this prayer in Latin every lesson. So I know it in Latin waay better than I know it in English.
Yeah, I'm better at Tengwar than English. The border is a bit messy though... And I Photoshopped out a lot of splotches and stuff.
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Sehr Welcome.
Legit. Much more legit than English. Maybe that's why its so concise.
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Hehehe...
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Hahahahah, yes.
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Yeah... That thing was helpful.
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