Happy Saturday everyone. Daily reminder to ignore those attempting to bring you down due to their own insecurities!

Beren and Lúthien walking in their garden...

The Grey Wizard, by John Howe

“That is one of the Mearas, unless my eyes are cheated by some spell”

The Grey Havens By Alan Lee “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. “But no living man am I!”

There’s a lot more in the “Online Harms Act” than provisions to protect children. As I explain in this analysis of the legislation, the Liberals are cynically using children as a cover for their shameless assault on free speech. dimitrilascaris.org/2024/04/08/tru… #cdnpoli #censorship

#Birdflu hoax! Laugh at them. Ignore their pathetic attempts. Understand the germ theory is false. Understand there are no viruses. Understand that symptoms are produced to cleanse the body of toxins. They are doing this to destroy our food supply. Call them out! Never comply!

Hobbiton by Matěj Čadil

Bilbo: Can you promise that I will come back? Gandalf: No. And if you do, you will not be the same.

I am being urged by some to tell people to vote for Nigel Farage and Reform. Those doing so don’t understand where I am coming from and how the political system itself is a fundamental part of human control. I can say from my long research how catastrophic a Starmer government

"I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats." - Letter 213

Tolkien’s imagination was beautiful.

Fun LOTR Fact for July 4th: Tolkien wrote that the reason Gandalf used fireworks with the Hobbits was because he was the bearer of the ring of fire (Narya) and that was the most “child-like” way to express his power around them.

A fawn resting in a field of flowers

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

70 years ago on 29 July 1954: The Fellowship of the Ring is published. The first part of J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Lord of Rings, it tells of Frodo Baggins leaving the Shire on a quest to destroy the One Ring. #LOTR is one of the world's most-loved books - what does it mean to you?

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!