Water is notoriously fickle. It’s powerful, like the ocean’s tsunamis, or it can be meek as a puddle. Water can wash away whole towns, yet it sustains life. Water, in its dual role, symbolizes the ...

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit ... it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.” In J.R.R. Tolkien’s story, 50-year-old Bilbo Baggins sat in front of his comfortable home blowing smoke ...