For those who need a bit of a lift from all the dark and dreary news of late, in these dark days of December – there is light, and the Light, on their way! – here is a delightful podcast on ‘Hobbit Virtue’, as instantiated in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy – and, of course, what started it all, The Hobbit. Would that we all lived a little more like these most hidden and humble folk: