I am reading Winters in the World by Eleanor Parker, an exploration of the year as it was seen in England during the Anglo-Saxons period. Early on, that culture divided the year into sumor and winter, which is why the solstices are called Midsummer's and Midwinter's Days. When the equinoxes became the start of two more divisions of the year, nomenclature was less fixed. I was delighted to learn that our term, fall, comes from something like "falling into winter." Autumn derives from the French automne, and another frequent name was Haerfast, i.e., Harvest. Whatever you want to call it, welcome in fall—and Happy Frodo and Bilbo Baggins Birthday!
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