Giant Eagles

By Nicole Marie Hilton

Have you ever seen an eagle?

To see one in person is breathtaking—there’s a reason the Bald Eagles are the National bird for the United States—they symbolize freedom.

I’ve wondered if, at the end of the world, these eagles will show up to save everyone…just like Tolkien imagined in the Lord of the Rings series.

I feel like…some people will knock something that sounds too fantastic to be believed.

But, then again, if you knock the existence of something as paltry as a giant eagle, what makes you think the Atonement will be, eventually, grasped by one with so little imagination?

If you’re reading this, you’ve stuck around until the end of this meandering entry. Thanks for being here, at the end of this thing….

….I wrote this, too 💋

“Last week I had many different beings around my room visit me at night…including a HUGE eagle. This thing was MASSIVE. It had an eye that was as big as a basketball. He was so stunningly terrifying and beautiful—and was as big as the eagles who rescue Frodo and Sam in the end of the Lord of the Rings series. He couldn’t fit into my room, and I saw that half of his body went through the wall—as spirits are wont to do—out into the backyard. I was, at first, shocked to see that these gargantuan raptors actually exist, but then the shock was replaced with wonder. His translucent inner eyelid blinked several times, and he moved his head quickly back and forth in a bird-like manner, bringing his eye a foot away from my own. His beak could have bitten me cleanly in half—no problem. Yet I was unafraid. I turned from him and fell asleep—him watching over me like a hawk…um…eagle, I mean.”

I will end on this note, from the esteemed J.R.R. Tolkien himself, who seemed to have known the mysterious ways of these huge creatures: