Opening Day 2008 for the Timber Rattlers is April 3. That is 82 days from today. This off-season, the countdown will be based on books. Each day between now and Opening Day 2008, I will pick a random book out of my library and excerpt a passage off the page number corresponding with the number of days remaining to the first pitch of the new season. I will try not to repeat a book during the countdown.
It was pointed out recently that J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday was last week -- January 3. To make up for missing that anniversary, the rest of the week is Tolkein Week on the countdown to opening day.
Today’s passage is from Tolkien, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia by David Day. Wondering what Formenos, from yesterday’s entry, is all about? Wonder no longer:
Formenos – After the Noldor prince Fëanor created those great jewels the Silmarils, he built a fortress and treasury in the north of Valinor in the Undying Lands. This stronghold was built upon a fortified hill and was named Formenos which in the High Elven tongue means “north citadel”. Formenos was the home of Fëanor’s clan during his years of exile from Tirion. After the destruction of the Trees of Valar, Morgoth came to the doors of Formenos and slew Fëanor’s father Finwë, the High King of the Noldor, then broke into the treasury and stole the Silmarils.
Put today’s excerpt in a baseball context.
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