Using you summing up my thoughts perfectly as an excuse to say:
Tolkien’s choice here was absolutely commentary on the way the false glory of war was sold to his generation before they were shipped off to die in WWI.
the saddest beanie baby related thing ever is still trap the mouse. no birthday
hi, fun fact! Trap the mouse doesn’t have a birthday because he was THE FIRST BEANIE BABY. Before Beanie Babies had birthdays, there was Trap the Mouse.
Basically, he is too ancient for birthdays. Older than dirt, this one.
he has no birthday for he is older than birth itself.
“If you could press a button that would give you a great deal of money, but it would cause someone you don’t know in a distant part of the world to die, then you would have a good model for how our current economy works. Welcome to Night Vale.”
Intro to WTNV episode 105, “what happened at the Smithwick house”