Here is a cool link to a Roman Catholic priest, who sees a connection between the Feast of the Annunciation and the Lord Of The Rings: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2012/03/ladyday-frodo-baggins-and-happy-new-year.html
Enjoy the reflection. I think it is a good one.
The general theme I title a post after, is Lord of the Rings, and how my topic relates to it. Usually it's a stretch, but most Tolkien themes seem to be non-canonically Orthodox. (I mean that tongue-in-cheek, of course.) Anyhow, I hope you enjoy it.
That header picture is the Bixby Bridge south of Carmel, CA on HWY 1 (Pacific Coast Hwy). I think it captures the theme of a journey, the bridge being my starting point towards Orthodoxy. I actually used to work in that area as a fireman. At the end of last year I was on that cliff, putting a deceased motorcyclist into a bag to be lifted out by helicopter. I was in my transition into Orthodoxy, and prayed for his soul. It was the first time I prayed for the departed.
I found this picture on the National Geographic website.
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Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog... Now He's Eastern Orthodox? 
As you may know J.R.R. Tolkien was a Roman Catholic believer. He’s often called a convert but it was, I understand, at a young age, as his widowed mother converted. She also died young and he was placed under the care of the fathers of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, the Oratorians, which is a religious congregation in the Catholic Church. I believe he was actually raised by a devout woman with Oratorian supervision. There is much that is Catholic in Tolkien. He also, I believe had a hand in C. S. Lewis’ conversion.