If Heck is full of people who don’t like HOA’s it’s probably not that bad.

I forget if it was on the day or day after, but while the events of 9/11 were unfolding or coming to light I had a social studies teacher claim the plane that crashed in the field was an attack on our agriculture.

There are three groups of Halflings that settled in The Shire at different times. The Fallohides are tall, have good relations with Elves, and are more adventurous than other halflings. By Bilbo and Frodos time Hobbits have homogenized, but the Baggins and other ‘upper class’ Hobbits still share Fallohide characteristics. Fallohides were sort of the ‘noble’ halflings, and Bilbo and Frodo are Fallohides. I don’t remember Gandalf having any canon links to halflings before The Shire (disregarding Rings of Power) but it would have had to have been well before even the founding of The Shire, because the Fallohides already had an established identity. Anyway I like it. Gandalfs great work culminating in his line producing Frodo, the Hobbit hero who destroyed the ring and sailed west with his own greatx57 grandfather.

So the world used to be flat, and you could sail to Valinor in any old boat. But the Valar don’t like uninvited guests, so they changed the world to be round. Now Valinor is still in the same place, but you can’t get there, the ‘path’ you sail curves away from The Undying Lands. Only Elves can sail the ‘straight’ path off into the sky to Valinor, but only if the Valar allow it. So not only is it unlikely that an Elf would ever try to take the embodiment of evil to literal Heaven, but the Valar would simply not allow the boat on the straight path, it would sail around the globe. Also even if an Elf tried to take the ring to Valinor they would surely be corrupted before the attempt and change their mind.