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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
Part of Frodo''s sufferings post-quest were the anniversary illnesses.
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It's a tangent, but your post made me think about the "anniversary illnesses" and what a strange conceit they are in the first place. Is this a genuine phenomenon in the real world? (I know I usually feel pretty queasy every year around my birthday...
) Or is Tolkien making a literary allusion? Or is it just Tolkien being Tolkien?
(Would Frodo's illnesses adjust for leap days? Official changes in the Shire Reckoning? Passing over the International Date Line?)