As I have noted before...
November 22 is the anniversary of the day one of the Professor's best friends, C.S. Lewis, went to his reward.

So far I have felt the normal feelings of a man my age- like an old tree that is losing all its leaves one by one: this feels like an axe-blow near the roots.

- J.R.R. Tolkien to Priscilla Tolkien, November 26, 1963