Skip to content Professor, most of what we hear and read today comes from Mordor. Thanks to you, we see it for what it is and are not deceived. Thank you also for those glimpses of goodness and good: the great Trees, the sound of the Sea, and the hobbits sharing a meal not a hundred yards away from a field of battle. We still remember, we who dwell. The Professor!
May it be a light to all of us in dark places, when all other lights go out!
When the night is at its darkest, the stars shine the brightest. We will get through the darkness. Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!
Thank you for bringing us all together, Professor!
To the Professor! And to the Strength of those still fighting the Mordor of our world.
¡Por el profesor!
Remember that you are not alone. Wherever you are there is kindness and goodness and light in the world around you. Thank you JRRT!
For many of us, the stories of Middle-Earth have become a means of escape from a world that seems not to make sense at times into one where Good prevails, often not through the deeds of the mighty but through the works of small, insignificant, ordinary people. And when we return from this world, we can bring a piece of this story home – and it transforms the way we see our own world as well. So today we raise …
