My most popular tweet ever was in response to a comment on this tweet:
Saw the perennial question of “why not use the Eagles to take the Ring to Mordor?” and there are lots of fine explanations, but my favorite has always been that b/c the Eagles are so powerful, they would’ve been corrupted by the Ring, eaten Frodo, and become Dark Bird Gods.
— Austin Gilkeson (@osutein) January 4, 2021
According to Tolkien’s unpublished history of postal code notation in the Shire, this has 4 digits too many.
— J. Henning (@JAlanHenning) January 5, 2021
That was only after Buckland was added to the Shire. The very first attested postal codes were just N, S, E, W, specifying which Farthing.
— J. Henning (@JAlanHenning) January 5, 2021
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