Last night as I was drifting off to sleep I was thinking about our boy Thomas Marsh and I realized I don’t actually know much about him so I resolved to spend some time on him.
Last night we had family over and some of my kids broke out a board game called Chameleon. Because of course they would two days after my last post:
I called for sinking the syncs a few months back and for the most part I have taken my own advice, but some syncs come with flotation devices I guess.
Minnesota is having a moment, and not for the first time. If you aren’t aware, ICE and CBP are conducting operations there in an effort to ostensibly enforce federal immigration law. This effort also seems at least somewhat tied to the “learing” fraud recently uncovered, which appears to be one of many widespread frauds in that and other states. I won’t bother posting any links regarding any of this since my guess is any reader here is already aware, but if you’re not, any search engine will provide the basic context with ease.
…but I’m not totally sure what to do with it exactly. Having said that, I reread the departure of the ship from the havens at the end of the LoTR with the space lens, and I must say that the idea seems to fit relatively well with how Tolkien describes it.
I’m beginning to think I have never read the LoTR appendices which surprises me. Regardless, there is some cool stuff in there. Appendix A treats mostly with the history of Numenorean kings picking up with the gap between the fall of Numenor and the return of the king, Aragorn.
My last post was called my most hated. I suspect this one could easily surpass it.
Below you’ll find a tale from Numenor from an unknown Source. I wrote it across several months in 2020 but I don’t think it came from me. I believe it came from “the children” referred to by Malachi, speaking a tale to their fathers: