The Tolkien Birthday Toast - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Inziladun · 11-21-2013, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I shall be raising a glass later in honour of Christopher Tolkien's eighty ninth birthday. Without his efforts we would have far less to talk about here.

Hear, hear.

Mithalwen · 01-03-2014, 05:45 AM

Don't forget to raise a glass in memory of JRRT at 9pm your time...

Bêthberry · 01-03-2014, 06:48 PM

Haven't decided yet if it will be a mug of tea or a snifter of brandy, but I have an hour left to decide.

Bêthberry · 01-03-2014, 07:51 PM

"yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expanded his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote. If the funeral of Beowulf moved once like the echo of an ancient dirge, far-off and hopeless, it is to us as a memory brought over the hills, an echo of an echo. There is not much poetry in the world like this."

A glass of South African shiraz.

Formendacil · 01-03-2014, 08:16 PM

"Indeed, he [Frodo] at once began to carry on Bilbo's reputation for oddity. He refused to go into mourning; and the next year he gave a party in honour of Bilbo's hundred-and-twelfth birthday, which he called a Hundred-weight Feast. But that was short of the mark, for twenty guests were invited, and there were several meals at which it snowed food and rained drink, as hobbits say."

-Samuel Adams "White Christmas" brew (a Belgian White ale)

Aganzir · 01-03-2014, 08:46 PM

We raised glasses of port wine with Lommy, Greenie, Nog, Legate, Kath, Hookbill, Rune, and Oddwen. It was part of our dinner which consisted of tea, cake, scones, seed-cakes, coffee, more cakes, beer, red wine, pies and cheeses, raspberry jam and apple-tart, salad, eggs, cold chicken, and pickles. Some observant individuals may notice that's pretty much what Bilbo served the Dwarves at the Unexpected Party.

Galadriel55 · 01-03-2014, 10:27 PM

Rather missed the time, but better late than never. The Professor!

"Dear-bought those songs shall be accounted, and yet shall be well-bought. For the price could be no other. Thus even as Eru spoke to us shall beauty not before conceived be brought into Ea, and evil yet be good to have been."

01-03-2014, 05:45 AM	#2
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,463	He would have been twelvety-two today! Don't forget to raise a glass in memory of JRRT at 9pm your time... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

01-03-2014, 06:48 PM	#3
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,007	Haven't decided yet if it will be a mug of tea or a snifter of brandy, but I have an hour left to decide. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

01-03-2014, 07:51 PM	#4
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,007	To The Professor "yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expanded his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote. If the funeral of Beowulf moved once like the echo of an ancient dirge, far-off and hopeless, it is to us as a memory brought over the hills, an echo of an echo. There is not much poetry in the world like this." A glass of South African shiraz. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

01-03-2014, 08:16 PM	#5
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,330	"Indeed, he [Frodo] at once began to carry on Bilbo's reputation for oddity. He refused to go into mourning; and the next year he gave a party in honour of Bilbo's hundred-and-twelfth birthday, which he called a Hundred-weight Feast. But that was short of the mark, for twenty guests were invited, and there were several meals at which it snowed food and rained drink, as hobbits say." -Samuel Adams "White Christmas" brew (a Belgian White ale) __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.

01-03-2014, 08:46 PM	#6
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	We raised glasses of port wine with Lommy, Greenie, Nog, Legate, Kath, Hookbill, Rune, and Oddwen. It was part of our dinner which consisted of tea, cake, scones, seed-cakes, coffee, more cakes, beer, red wine, pies and cheeses, raspberry jam and apple-tart, salad, eggs, cold chicken, and pickles. Some observant individuals may notice that's pretty much what Bilbo served the Dwarves at the Unexpected Party. __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.

01-03-2014, 10:27 PM	#7
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,554	Rather missed the time, but better late than never. The Professor! "Dear-bought those songs shall be accounted, and yet shall be well-bought. For the price could be no other. Thus even as Eru spoke to us shall beauty not before conceived be brought into Ea, and evil yet be good to have been." __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

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