Thursday, April 09, 2026

Making a Marriage

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly… both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

—J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to his son. 

2 comments:

james said...

So in a way we make a choice and God ratifies it.

Texan99 said...

And that from a man who had "Beren" and "Luthien" carved on his and his wife's headstones.