I was thinking about the wildfires everywhere this summer. One though came to me . Next summer, they say will be the hottest ever because of El Nino. What would happen if the wildfires joined together into one big mega fire in any country? This nearly happened near Madrid this summer. This would be a whole new thing. El Nino , by the way is named after the Christ Child. It means, 'The little boy'.
2 minutes ago Hundreds missing, including 291 foreign tourists, after deadly flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6y8mjmnpxv0t
The Cause Identified: Nepal’s Foreign Minister, Shishir Khanal, confirmed that a 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck at 8:37 AM local time, triggering a massive glacier rock and ice avalanche. This blocked the Lhende Khola River (a tributary of the Bhote Koshi), creating a sudden, catastrophic surge downstream
Just as a quick aside Tolkien was not a fan of allegory. He has some use for it but his story is styled as mythopoeia and what he would call applicability and freedom of interpretation. Have a look at some of his thought on this.
He had a cordial dislike of intentional allegory. "I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language." The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien I stand corrected that his intentions were not directly allegorical. He does admit though that his work is imbued with catholicity. The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision." The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien 142
