Today in Middle-earth
Today is Friday, March 24.
It is Highday, 1 Astron in the Shire-reckoning.
It is Valanya (Orbelain), 51 Coirë in the reckoning of Rivendell.
But through Hobbits, not Men so-called, because the last Tale is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, forgotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and that without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.
~The Letters of JRR Tolkien; letter #131, dated late 1951
It is Highday, 1 Astron in the Shire-reckoning.
It is Valanya (Orbelain), 51 Coirë in the reckoning of Rivendell.
But through Hobbits, not Men so-called, because the last Tale is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, forgotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and that without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.
~The Letters of JRR Tolkien; letter #131, dated late 1951