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Happy Hobbit Day to all!
On 22 September: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born. As Ring-bearers, born 78 years apart, their birthdays were honoured as Cormarë, and Tolkien societies worldwide continue to commemorate. How will you celebrate? pic.twitter.com/NKSl7n5ec5
— Tolkien Society (@TolkienSociety) September 22, 2025
And this…
NEW: Pope Leo met w Cardinal Sarah today
Sarah recently said that Fiducia Supplicans “threatens the unity of the Church. It is a document to be forgotten.”
Has also strongly warned against Latin Mass restrictions.
Banning the TLM “would be like forbidding the study of St.… pic.twitter.com/5hqRnY21qm
— Michael Haynes ?? (@MLJHaynes) September 22, 2025
And… I recall the late great Msgr. Dulac’s (philosophy prof at St. Thomas in St. Paul) comments on his … acuity.
Yet more proof that those who constantly drone on about the “infection” of “clericalism” (e.g. https://t.co/TzOTHinldU) are, in the end, just telling on themselves. https://t.co/YoH61gzwJt pic.twitter.com/9tZP0wr7J2
— Matthew Hazell (@M_P_Hazell) September 22, 2025
And now another thing altogether….
And now Legolas feel silent, while the others talked, and he looked out against the sun, and as he gazed he saw white sea-birds beating up the River. “Look!” he cried. “Gulls! They are flying far inland. A wonder they are to me and a trouble to my heart. Never in all my life had I met them, until we came to Pelargir, and there I heard them crying in the air as we rode to the battle of the ships. Then I stood still, forgetting war in Middle-earth; for their wailing voices spoke to me of the Sea. The Sea! Alas! I have not yet beheld it. But deep in the hearts of all my kindred lies the sea-longing, which it is perilous to stir. Alas! for the gulls. No peace shall I have again under beech or under elm.
~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Return of the King
Peter Jackson has done us a grave disservice.
Black to move.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
