How grand it was for J. R. R. Tolkien to name one of his hobbits Meriadoc Brandybuck! What a name! And of course it’s got to have its short form as Merry. The Lord of the Rings has plenty of darkness in it, as did the war-torn and madness-ridden world that Tolkien lived in, but darkness is not at its soul. Light is – both light as splendor, wh…
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