The Annunciation and the Fall of Barad Dur

From 1155 to 1752 the new year in England began on March 25, Lady Day.

“The fourteenth of the New Year,’ said Gandalf; ‘or if you like, the eighth day of April in the Shire-reckoning. * But in Gondor the New Year will always now begin upon the twenty-fifth of March when Sauron fell, and when you were brought out of the fire to the King.

Gandolph speaking to Sam Gamgee after the destruction of the One Ring.  JRR Tolkien, The Return of The King.

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Donald R. McClarey

Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.

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