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EPISODE · Nov 14, 2025 · 2 MIN

The Lord of the Rings and encouragement

from The Up Devotional · host Matthew Ruttan

“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). I was recently surprised to learn that JRR Tolkien could get discouraged about his work. He wrote the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, perhaps one of the greatest movie epics of all time. It chronicles the battle […]

“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing” (1 Thessalonians 5:11). I was recently surprised to learn that JRR Tolkien could get discouraged about his work. He wrote the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, perhaps one of the greatest movie epics of all time. It chronicles the battle […]

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