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		<title>How the walls of Jericho and Orthanc fell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the fall of the walls of Orthanc was narrated by Pippin: I thought that they had been really roused before; but I was wrong.  I saw what it was like at last.  it was staggering.  They roared and boomed and trumpeted, until stones began to crack and fall at the mere noise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=220&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fellowship of the Ring leaves Rivendell on Christmas day: the Mission of Christ and Frodo to Mount Doom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divine Mercy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fellowship of the Ring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frodo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Calvary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mount Doom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Ring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rivendell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sauron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Appendix B of the Return of the King, we learn that the Company of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk.  The day was December 25, 3018 of the Second Age.  Before the company set out, Elrond spoke his last word: The Ring-bearer is setting out on the Quest to Mount Doom.  On him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=217&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biblical numerology in the birthday party of Bilbo and Frodo: 111 and 33</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[666]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bilbo Baggins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frodo Baggins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[numerology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the &#8220;Long Expected Party&#8221; we read: Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reaced 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty three, 33, an important number: the date of his &#8216;coming of age&#8217;. (Fellowship of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=213&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The line of Nimloth the Fair and the Shoot of Jesse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aragorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eldest of Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elendil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Galathilion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gandalf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Elessar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nimloth the Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shoot of Jesse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telperion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The finding of the sapling of the Eldest of the Trees in the barren slopes is a metaphor for the finding the race of Elendil in the barren wilderness outside of Gondor: Then Aragorn turned, and there was a stony slope behind him running down from the skirts of the snow; and as he looked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=211&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Radagast the Brown and St. Francis of Assisi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[St. Francis of Assis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Concerning Radagast the Brown, Gandalf said: Radagast is, of course, a worthy Wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue; and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends. (Fellowship of the Ring, p. 288) This passage reminds us St. Francis of Assisi, who is usually depicted as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=209&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gondor&#8217;s custom of looking westward before meals: Gloria Patri and the Salvation History</title>
		<link>http://holbytla.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/gondors-custom-of-looking-westward-before-meals-the-gloria-patri-and-the-salvation-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aragorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faramir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gandalf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gondor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ithilien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morgoth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Numenor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saruman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The men of Gondor has the following custom before meals: Before they ate, Faramir and all his men turned and faced west in a moment of silence.  Faramir signed to Frodo and Sam that they should do likewise. &#8216;So we always do,&#8217; he said, as they sat down: &#8216; we look towards Numenor that was, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=204&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elvish Lembas and Eucharistic Fasting: the story of Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elvish lembas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eucharistic fast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of their journey to Mt. Doom, Frodo and Sam fed on lembas alone: The lembas had a virtue without which they would long ago have lain down to die.  It did not satisfy desire, and at times Sam&#8217;s mind was filled with the memories of food, and the longing for simple bread [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=202&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Galadriel&#8217;s three locks of hair and the relics of the saints</title>
		<link>http://holbytla.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/galadriels-three-locks-of-hair-and-the-relics-of-the-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Council of Trent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Galadriel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gimli]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[St. Polycarp of Smyrna]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Galadriel asked Gimli what gift he would like to have.  Gimli said none.  But Galadriel insisted.  So Gimli named his gift: &#8216;There is nothing, Lady Galadriel,&#8217; said Gimli, bowing low and stammering. &#8216;Nothing, unless it might be&#8211; unless it is permitted to ask, nay, to name a single strand of your hair, which surpasses the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=198&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Wenceslaus, Aragorn, and Christ: the Army of the Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aragorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Averdue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catechism of the Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christ's descent into Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malbeth the Seer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paths of the Dead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Wenceslaus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stone of Erech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last September 28 is the Feast of the St. Wenceslaus (907-935 A.D.), the Good King Wenceslaus, patron Saint of Bohemia and parts of the Czech Republic.  St. Wenceslaus is the subject of many legends (Wikipedia): There are many legends about King Wenceslaus. An old one claims a huge army of knights sleep inside Blaník, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=193&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacrament of Penance: Confession of Pippin to Gandalf</title>
		<link>http://holbytla.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/sacrament-of-penance-confession-of-pippin-to-gandalf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quirino M. Sugon Jr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palantir of Orthanc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sacrament of Penance has three parts: (1) Contrition, (2) Confession of Sins, and (3) Satisfaction.  These three parts are found in the confession of Pippin, with Gandalf acting as a priest. (Two Towers pp. 219-220) First, the penitent will say, &#8220;Bless me Father, for I have sinned.&#8221;   In the case of Pippin, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=holbytla.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6152760&amp;post=191&amp;subd=holbytla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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