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@FOX59 It's Little Big Town, everybody - saved you a click.

@C0smas0wl @oldspeak_books I think you got the age but that generation who went to UK and Commonwealth schools learned a distinctive loopy cursive handwriting and almost all women kept it. This was written by a boomer in his 60's or 70's. Also a woman that age wouldn't use lined paper for this.

@Indy_reporter_ There's also been a mosque and community center in Westfield for six months - had no idea maps.app.goo.gl/uzgxN1j4jiXPyt…

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings. He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why? Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself... Tom Bombadil is an enigmatic, merry hermit of the countryside, known as "oldest and fatherless" by the Elves. He is truly ancient, and claims he was "here before the river and the trees." He's so confounding that Peter Jackson left him out of the films entirely. This is understandable, since he's unimportant to the development of the plot. Tolkien, however, saw fit to include him anyway, because Tom reveals a lot about the underlying ethics of Middle-earth, and how to shield yourself from evil. The hobbits meet Bombadil early on in their quest, before they reach Bree and the Prancing Pony Inn. He rescues Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow, and invites the hobbits to stay at his house in the Old Forest. There, the hobbits realize something strange about him: the Ring has no power over Bombadil whatsoever. When he wears it, he remains visible. He treats it as a plaything, making it disappear with a magic trick. Indeed, at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf rejects the idea of giving the Ring to Tom, for he would likely misplace it or forget about it entirely. So just who is he, exactly? When Frodo asks this very question to Tom's wife Goldberry, she simply responds "He is." It's a cryptic answer that echoes God's famous answer to Moses in the Book of Exodus: "I am who I am." Thus, many theorize that Bombadil is God, some kind of angelic being, or even the spirit of the Music of the Ainur (due to the fact that he is constantly singing). But Tolkien's letters reveal something considerably more interesting… In April 1954, Tolkien wrote: "The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…" So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him. To Bombadil, the One Ring is simply a ring, and the possibilities of what can be achieved through its power are of no importance. He is able to resist its evil precisely because he is entirely content with the world around him. At the end of the story, having accomplished what he set out to do in Middle-earth, Gandalf pays Tom a visit before returning to the Undying Lands: "I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time." If Bombadil is the epitome of simply enjoying life and being, Gandalf is the epitome of doing. He guides the hobbits, fights the Balrog, and runs up and down Middle-earth to help destroy the One Ring. But now that he's finally liberated from doing, he immediately heads to Bombadil's. He does so with a sense of relief, as if he's at last able to access a purer and higher mode of being — a sort of innocence that cannot be fully experienced by those consumed by doing. Of course, by this Tolkien doesn't disparage the value of action. The entirety of LOTR displays the importance of rising up against evil, even in the face of all odds. But with the inclusion of Bombadil, he does remind readers that fighting isn't all there is. Bombadil reminds us that while it's important to strive and *do*, it is just as important to occasionally step back and *be*. Indeed, your ability to do so plays a crucial role in helping you resist the allure of evil… Read the full piece here: theculturist.io/welcome The unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings...

@ShanePaisios @PriestKristoph Her generation did the Friday fasts and a harder Lenten fast than they have now, but not the other fasts we have. So she kind of gets Fridays. The addition of Wednesdays just baffles her.

@ShanePaisios @PriestKristoph Please pray for us not-so-young converts with Catholic mothers-in-law who equate Orthodox fasting schedules with something Jim Jones would make his followers do. I have kept quiet or laughed it off but it's ticking me off more of late.

@Indyfordfan @FOX59 It looks like he and his brother live with their maternal grandparents in Westfield. At least that is the address listed on their most recent arrests. Their biological parents are, let's just say, not strangers to the local criminal justice system.

@Indyfordfan @FOX59 He has a twin brother who was involved in the 2025 incident too.

@kymeriandawn @PageauJonathan Have you seen this about the white stag?

@pureMetatron Congratulations! We are proud to have you. 🇺🇸🗽🎆

@GoldingShowers @elsathora Snälla, lyssna inte på den här killen!

@fisharmor126706 American society has underestimated the usefulness of fear as a way to suppress bad behavior since 1965 or so.

@FreddyLA7 @AAA_Travel @CNTraveler Hire this man

@JuliovonBirman In welcher Sprache träumen Sie normalerweise?

@Indy_reporter_ It has been under construction off and on for about four years.

@BuyEnglishMade Bonbi Forest Wild Cornish Soap Cornish Willow Made For Life Organics The Real Olive Company Highfield Preserves St. Austell beer

@JoshLipnik The Bates-Hendricks neighborhood south of Fountain Square was a German area at the turn of the century.

@mass_ave @JoshLipnik INXS, 1985

The obvious vision of the regime is to depopulate the Midwestern states except for migrant slave labor harvesting commodity crops with AI combines. corn, soy, solar fields They don't want big white families with lots of children who create their own food, wood, fabric, etc.

Mike is a Raven @HalotiMatata

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@AgroNationalism The Midwest is going to be so empty in a few decades it’s just going to be everyone living within 50 miles of a city and then nothing but a few farmers outside of that.

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@MicahBeckwith I can't find anyone who grew up here who has heard that story Public schools used to teach Indiana history in fourth grade. This was our textbook in the 1970's and 1980's and the usual origin stories of the word.

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