Thank you all for the birthday wishes, those who did so via PM as well as here. I was going to reply to PMs but then got caught up in the board trouble and was preoccupied with cramming some werewolf in. Anyway, thank you all.
Alas, I had a very un-Tolkien theme to my birthday gifts: cats.
Which suits me right down to the ground, but I fear assigns me to Mordor.