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Old 01-05-2014, 05:48 PM   #1
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A Birthday Toast:

Here’s to Tolkien,
And here’s to you and me.
If perchance we disagree
On Middle-earth canonically,
Hell with you, here’s to Tolkien and me.
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Old 01-03-2015, 02:06 PM   #2
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To the Professor! I raised a glass of Moscato Spumante, together with my husband & sons.
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man, sub-creator, the refracted light
through whom is splintered from a single White
to many hues, and endlessly combined
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There are two pre-eminent feasts in the Barrow-downer year: Bilbo & Frodo's Birthday and Tolkien's birthday, and the latter of these is upon us. Break out the toasting glasses and something nice to drink this evening.
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I will be toasting with my traditional mimosa.

How about some birthday cakes for the occasion?
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Milk for me. Happy birthday, Professor!

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How about some birthday cakes for the occasion?
Half of these don't look edible. They're beautiful and creative, but I somehow hesitate to trust any cake that doesn't look like food. I really like the Gondor and Lothlorien inspired ones, though.
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There are two pre-eminent feasts in the Barrow-downer year: Bilbo & Frodo's Birthday and Tolkien's birthday, and the latter of these is upon us. Break out the toasting glasses and something nice to drink this evening.
Huzzah and so forth!
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To the Professor!

(And because of the requisite time of the toast, I could raise but a glass of goodly dihydrogen monoxide.)

And as for my quote, well, 'tis a newish one. Let's see if any can identify it.

"Let us rather be glad that we have come suddenly upon a storehouse of those popular imaginings that we had feared lost, stocked with stories not yet sophisticated into a sense of proportion, with no thought of the decent limits of exaggeration, with no sense (or certainly not our sense) of the incongruous, unless, as we may at times suspect, incongruity is delighted in."
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