What did Tolkien call “the one great thing to love on earth”?

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The famous Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien was referring to the Blessed Sacrament.

In a letter to his son, Michael, he wrote:

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that…


When we think of Tolkien, perhaps we don’t think of anything else but the fact that he was a great writer. If we’re not fantasy readers, we probably don’t think about him at all, though most of us have heard of his classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

But there’s much more to Tolkien than his books. His life—much like ours—was no fairy tale. His faith—in which his extraordinary imagination was rooted—was tried and tested by unbelievable trials.

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