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Happy Tuesday ? pic.twitter.com/fr1MSdBefg
— MedievalistMatt (@medievalistmatt) September 1, 2026

I owe this man more than I can describe in words.

On 2 September 1973 J.R.R. Tolkien died aged 81. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is the best-selling book of the 20th Century, and is joined by seminal works The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
He may have died 53 years ago but his influence and legacy lives on in us all. Namárië. pic.twitter.com/bkYHk62NAx
— Tolkien Society (@TolkienSociety) September 2, 2026

And…

A starter that rode west in a covered wagon in 1847 still rises bread today, mailed free by strangers who never met the man who carried it.
Carl Griffith kept the culture alive for seventy years after inheriting it as a boy in Oregon in 1930.
After he died in 2000, volunteers… pic.twitter.com/BokqrjHHxl
— Localize – Farmers Market (@Localizefoodapp) September 1, 2026

And…

Back in the day when ads were actually creative and funny. ? pic.twitter.com/zzQEax3hSE
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