March 25th

On this Date: Frodo casts the One ring into the fires of mount doom, ending the power of Sauron the dark lord. Here is a little bit from a website called The Shire-Reckoning. You can read the rest of the entry for March 25th here. In the year S.R. 1419 March 25 The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings. "...as Frodo in the Sammath Naur claims the Ring as his own, Gollum seizes the Ring and then in accordance with Frodo's curse falls backwards into the volcano and the Ring is melted and destroyed. Thus the Ring survived more than forty-eight hundred years since its forging, and more than three thousand years since Isildur cut it, still warm, from the hand of Sauron after the victory of the Last Alliance. The Dark Tower and its works fall into ruin as the Dark Lord passes away. While the hosts of the West press upon their enemies before the Morannon, Gandalf, knowing that the Ring-bearer will be trapped if he survived his errand, summons the great eagle Thorondor. At his direction the eagles Landroval and Meneldor rescue the Ring-bearer and his servant, fallen at the feet of Orodruin, and bear them to the healing hands of their King." It's a pretty neat site if you get into this kinda thing like I do. I'll link it over there in the side bar. The Shire-Reckoning. True aficionados will tell you this event actually happened nine days ago, as our calendar doesn't jive with Shire Reckoning. To me that's a lot of work. Besides, any calendar with days set aside associated with no month just to celebrate is good enough for me.... Oh, yeah, March 25th is also my sisters birthday. Happy birthday to my Sister The Muse. Who by the way has joined a roller derby league. I can't wait to go check out some live roller derby. Awesome!