Y is for Yule

            “Yule is the season of hope, my boy.  Think on it!  The days have been growing shorter and shorter, the weather colder and more bitter, the nights darker, more forbidding, and then—there it is!  Yule comes, and the Sun turns again, begins to rise earlier and earlier daily.  It’s still cold, but the fact it isn’t so dark is enough to help us to face another day.  The dark cannot prevail!”

            Frodo thought on these words as he entered Mordor.  Perhaps he might not see the spring, but others could.  He would not allow the dark to prevail!