Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/2

FACT OF THE DAY:

Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published today (10/2) in 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and profound reflection have gone to make everything in it so ripe, so friendly, and in its own way so true.”

A World for Children
(First published 10/2/1937 in The Times Literary Supplement)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

“They smell battle, said ________, pointing at the birds. They know we’re preparing a feed for them.” Which character said this in which Narnia book?

TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.

ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION: “…a difficulty…” (from Reflections on the Psalms)