well-beloved

Of course, for a bookish person, there is no place like home when the bookshelf is comfortably stocked, and you are blessed with a soft chair, a warm fire, a bright lamp over your shoulder, a cool drink at your elbow, and a few uninterrupted hours to open the covers of some well-beloved book of gold, and soar to distant realms whose stars are not like ours, far from the fields we know.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

Caspian, well-beloved son of Aslan, forgets the full nature of his calling and momentarily decides that he should accompany Reepicheep to beyond the very edge of the world, for no other reason than that he wants to.

Carl McColman: Spiritual Lessons From 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Movie Carl McColman 2010

Caspian, well-beloved son of Aslan, forgets the full nature of his calling and momentarily decides that he should accompany Reepicheep to beyond the very edge of the world, for no other reason than that he wants to.

Carl McColman: Spiritual Lessons From 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Movie Carl McColman 2010

I wrote them because I wanted to imagine myself differently - not as the nerdy, lonely kid that I was, but the much prettier and well-beloved princess of a magical land.

And you may ask yourself, how did I get here? Kat Howard 2010

Caspian, well-beloved son of Aslan, forgets the full nature of his calling and momentarily decides that he should accompany Reepicheep to beyond the very edge of the world, for no other reason than that he wants to.

Carl McColman: Spiritual Lessons From 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Movie Carl McColman 2010

Caspian, well-beloved son of Aslan, forgets the full nature of his calling and momentarily decides that he should accompany Reepicheep to beyond the very edge of the world, for no other reason than that he wants to.

Carl McColman: Spiritual Lessons From 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Movie Carl McColman 2010

The letters are from the Queen explaining in pitiless detail why she had picked her "right, trusty and well-beloved counsellor John Leslie Prescott" for the job.

The peerless John Prescott takes his place in House Of Lords 2010

Caspian, well-beloved son of Aslan, forgets the full nature of his calling and momentarily decides that he should accompany Reepicheep to beyond the very edge of the world, for no other reason than that he wants to.

Carl McColman: Spiritual Lessons From 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Movie Carl McColman 2010

At least, this format is well-beloved in fanfiction, and I think an audience trained on serial TV with long character arcs may be more receptive to it.

Purely Hypothetical 2010

Caspian, well-beloved son of Aslan, forgets the full nature of his calling and momentarily decides that he should accompany Reepicheep to beyond the very edge of the world, for no other reason than that he wants to.

Carl McColman: Spiritual Lessons From 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader' Movie Carl McColman 2010