[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

All is quite literally cool here in Reading (we had snow today and expect more tomorrow). My current choice of reading is actually The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters, so I suppose I'm at the Abbey of Shrewsbury in 1144, waiting to see where Robert Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, is going with his playful claim on the reliquary of St. Winifred.

Since most of my thoughts outside of my current reading material are tending towards conclusions and beginnings, one might say that I am at the point of leaving Bag End, which would seem an appropriate place for us all to be, it being the beginning of a new year. Of course, it would be quite shockingly pretentious of me to say any such thing, so feel free to append any such comments below.