Why Hobbits And Elves Love All Things That Grow

The Machine is the province of those who lust for power; Art is the province of those who hear the Music of Iluvatar.

For all hobbits share a love for things that grow.

I’ve been fascinated by this sentence ever since my first reading of The Lord of the Rings, years ago. I felt there was some “deeper magic” in it. It spoke right into the gaping hole in my heart that yearned for woods, lakes, skies, and mountains.

I grew up in a big urban city amid concrete and asphalt. A…