Tolkien's Birthday - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Carorëiel · 01-03-2004, 07:49 AM

Today is the birthday of the man who started it all. Anybody celebrating?

Phervasaion · 01-03-2004, 07:55 AM

I never new it was Tolkeins Birthday today. Cool. I'll celebarate by reading LotR or the Silmarillion [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] .

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Evisse the Blue · 01-03-2004, 08:07 AM

The Tolkien society proposes that we toast our dear Professor. Go here if you wanna know more:toast 2004
I know I'll be toasting: white wine, to be exact.
I find it very cool that we share the same month of birth: my b-day in on the 15! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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Olorin_TLA · 01-03-2004, 09:13 AM

Happy Birthday, JRR Tolkien! May the sun never set on the...umm...*forgets...this is embarrasing*

*Toasts!* Westu Tolkien hal! Ferthu!

Daisy Brambleburr · 01-03-2004, 09:42 AM

I'll definitley be toasting. I celebrated Bilbo and Frodo's birthday in my own strange way, so I'll definatley raise a glass to Tolkien. Hey, it even gives me an excuse to bake a cake, lol.

Wasn't last year his eleventy-first? I missed it then [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Kalimac · 01-03-2004, 10:00 AM

This is also the birthday of my friend's daughter, so remembering it isn't too difficult [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img].

Husband & I have both been down with the flu, so no wine, but we will definitely raise a glass of watered-down orange juice to the Professor's memory tonight.

Lord of Angmar · 01-03-2004, 10:33 AM

I shall celebrate with a glass of Grappa Julia, a log fire and a quiet reading of a few of my favorite chapters of The Silmarillion. I had no notion that this was the Professor's birthday, so I have been pleasantly surprised!

Lyta_Underhill · 01-03-2004, 10:36 AM

I will also be raising a glass, wherever I happen to be, at 3:00 p.m. CST (21:00 GMT) to the Professor! That is around the usual time for my walks (slowly, slowly on to Lothlorien!). Best wishes for quick recovery to your and your husband, Kalimac! I'm lucky my ailment is only a bad cold--can't breathe but I can get around a little (with an entourage handing me Kleenex and decongestants)!

Cheers!
Lyta

Lily Bracegirdle · 01-03-2004, 03:12 PM

I'll be celebrating because it's my birthday, too. If only I'd been born a year later I would have been Frodo to his Bilbo, and come of age on his eleventy first. Well, a near miss is close enough.

Speedy recovery, Lyta and Kalimac!

-Lily

Arwen Evenstar · 01-03-2004, 03:20 PM

I`m glad somebody said something! I was just getting on to say happy birth-day to Tolkien, when I saw this, so I`ll say it: Happy birth-day J.R.R. Tolkien! Your my hero! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
I am also glad that my b-day is in January. I`m 13 on the 29th. (YAY!)
Cheers!

Finwe · 01-03-2004, 03:20 PM

I remembered to toast The Professor this morning. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I'm definitely proud of myself. I even baked a cake in the shape of the One Ring, and spent about two hours writing the Ring inscription on it with vanilla icing. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Failivrin · 01-03-2004, 03:36 PM

I wished the Prof. a happy birthday this morning and have told everyone i have seen in the last 2 weeks that Tolkien's birthday is on the 3rd of January.

i get particularly excited today because the 3rd is Tolkien's b-day and the 4th is the anniversary of when i saw Sean Bean.

Sapphire_Flame · 01-03-2004, 04:38 PM

Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!!!

*toasts*

To the most incredible author ever to grace this little planet. Huzzah!!!

Abedithon le,

~*~Aranel~*~

Lyta_Underhill · 01-03-2004, 04:59 PM

Well, I toasted Prof. Tolkien at as close to 3 p.m. CST (21:00 GMT) as I could, according to the instructions on the Tolkien Society webpage. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] The only odd thing about it was that I was a mile out on my walk and instinctively turned towards the West to give the toast (which was with a bottle previously containing vanilla extract filled with just enough red wine to fulfill the toast.) I did not even realize I had been facing West until I was on the way back home--just thought it appropriate, even if my location is way far west already from a posited Britain-based Middle Earth...

Cheers!
Lyta

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Kalimac · 01-03-2004, 06:00 PM

Thanks, Lily and Lyta! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. We're well over the worst of it, just still having that feeling like you've just been run through a laundry mangle.

Finwe, that sounds like an impressive cake. Photos?

Diamond18 · 01-03-2004, 06:51 PM

Ack. I forgot it was today. Can you believe that? Especially since it's also the birthday of one of my cousins. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Thanks for the reminder. At 3:00 CST I was staring at the clock thinking, "I'm off work in an hour. An hour! A very long hour...."

Oh well. That's life. I would say "Happy Birthday" except that, well, you know....

Edit: Ah, well, I did just drink a "toast" of sorts. I was far too tired to do anything but think "to Tolkien" before downing some wine, but it was a well meant "to Tolkien". [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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Carrûn · 01-03-2004, 07:05 PM

I will most likely be having a toast with the leftovers from the New Year's celebration...

Daisy Brambleburr · 01-04-2004, 04:49 AM

I forgot. How incredibly lame is that? [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

01-03-2004, 07:49 AM	#1
Carorëiel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Tennessee Posts: 54	Tolkien's Birthday Today is the birthday of the man who started it all. Anybody celebrating? __________________ "Art is our way of keeping track of what we know and have known, secretly, from the beginning."--John Gardner

01-03-2004, 07:55 AM	#2
Phervasaion Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The wilderness of Middle-Earth Posts: 306	I never new it was Tolkeins Birthday today. Cool. I'll celebarate by reading LotR or the Silmarillion [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] . <font size=1 color=339966>[ 8:56 AM January 03, 2004: Message edited by: Phervasaion ] __________________ Phervasaion

01-03-2004, 08:07 AM	#3
Evisse the Blue Brightness of a Blade Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wherever I may roam Posts: 2,740	The Tolkien society proposes that we toast our dear Professor. Go here if you wanna know more:toast 2004 I know I'll be toasting: white wine, to be exact. I find it very cool that we share the same month of birth: my b-day in on the 15! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] <font size=1 color=339966>[ 9:08 AM January 03, 2004: Message edited by: Evisse the Blue ] __________________ And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

01-03-2004, 09:13 AM	#4
Olorin_TLA Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Gardens of Lórien, Valinor. Posts: 420	Happy Birthday, JRR Tolkien! May the sun never set on the...umm...forgets...this is embarrasing Toasts! Westu Tolkien hal! Ferthu! __________________ "For I am Olórin! And Olórin means me!" ELENDIL! - Join "Forth Tolkiengas!"

01-03-2004, 09:42 AM	#5
Daisy Brambleburr Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 334	I'll definitley be toasting. I celebrated Bilbo and Frodo's birthday in my own strange way, so I'll definatley raise a glass to Tolkien. Hey, it even gives me an excuse to bake a cake, lol. Wasn't last year his eleventy-first? I missed it then [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] __________________ 'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve? Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.'

01-03-2004, 10:00 AM	#6
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	This is also the birthday of my friend's daughter, so remembering it isn't too difficult [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. Husband & I have both been down with the flu, so no wine, but we will definitely raise a glass of watered-down orange juice to the Professor's memory tonight. __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.

01-03-2004, 10:33 AM	#7
Lord of Angmar Tyrannus Incorporalis Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the North Posts: 833	I shall celebrate with a glass of Grappa Julia, a log fire and a quiet reading of a few of my favorite chapters of The Silmarillion. I had no notion that this was the Professor's birthday, so I have been pleasantly surprised! __________________ ...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.

01-03-2004, 10:36 AM	#8
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 844	I will also be raising a glass, wherever I happen to be, at 3:00 p.m. CST (21:00 GMT) to the Professor! That is around the usual time for my walks (slowly, slowly on to Lothlorien!). Best wishes for quick recovery to your and your husband, Kalimac! I'm lucky my ailment is only a bad cold--can't breathe but I can get around a little (with an entourage handing me Kleenex and decongestants)! Cheers! Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”

01-03-2004, 03:12 PM	#9
Lily Bracegirdle Wight Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Bree Posts: 210	I'll be celebrating because it's my birthday, too. If only I'd been born a year later I would have been Frodo to his Bilbo, and come of age on his eleventy first. Well, a near miss is close enough. Speedy recovery, Lyta and Kalimac! -Lily __________________ "But nay: the praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards." - Faramir

01-03-2004, 03:20 PM	#10
Arwen Evenstar Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 131	I`m glad somebody said something! I was just getting on to say happy birth-day to Tolkien, when I saw this, so I`ll say it: Happy birth-day J.R.R. Tolkien! Your my hero! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] I am also glad that my b-day is in January. I`m 13 on the 29th. (YAY!) Cheers!

01-03-2004, 03:20 PM	#11
Finwe Deathless Sun Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos Posts: 2,609	I remembered to toast The Professor this morning. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I'm definitely proud of myself. I even baked a cake in the shape of the One Ring, and spent about two hours writing the Ring inscription on it with vanilla icing. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.

01-03-2004, 03:36 PM	#12
Failivrin Wight Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: England Posts: 201	I wished the Prof. a happy birthday this morning and have told everyone i have seen in the last 2 weeks that Tolkien's birthday is on the 3rd of January. i get particularly excited today because the 3rd is Tolkien's b-day and the 4th is the anniversary of when i saw Sean Bean. __________________ no one in particular

01-03-2004, 04:38 PM	#13
Sapphire_Flame Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The World That Never Was Posts: 1,312	Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!!! toasts To the most incredible author ever to grace this little planet. Huzzah!!! Abedithon le, ~~Aranel~~ __________________ The Hitchhiking Ghost

01-03-2004, 04:59 PM	#14
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 844	Well, I toasted Prof. Tolkien at as close to 3 p.m. CST (21:00 GMT) as I could, according to the instructions on the Tolkien Society webpage. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] The only odd thing about it was that I was a mile out on my walk and instinctively turned towards the West to give the toast (which was with a bottle previously containing vanilla extract filled with just enough red wine to fulfill the toast.) I did not even realize I had been facing West until I was on the way back home--just thought it appropriate, even if my location is way far west already from a posited Britain-based Middle Earth... Cheers! Lyta <font size=1 color=339966>[ 6:05 PM January 03, 2004: Message edited by: Lyta_Underhill ] __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”

01-03-2004, 06:00 PM	#15
Kalimac Candle of the Marshes Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Flyover Country Posts: 780	Thanks, Lily and Lyta! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. We're well over the worst of it, just still having that feeling like you've just been run through a laundry mangle. Finwe, that sounds like an impressive cake. Photos? __________________ Father, dear Father, if you see fit, We'll send my love to college for one year yet Tie blue ribbons all about his head, To let the ladies know that he's married.

01-03-2004, 06:51 PM	#16
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,561	Ack. I forgot it was today. Can you believe that? Especially since it's also the birthday of one of my cousins. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Thanks for the reminder. At 3:00 CST I was staring at the clock thinking, "I'm off work in an hour. An hour! A very long hour...." Oh well. That's life. I would say "Happy Birthday" except that, well, you know.... Edit: Ah, well, I did just drink a "toast" of sorts. I was far too tired to do anything but think "to Tolkien" before downing some wine, but it was a well meant "to Tolkien". [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] <font size=1 color=339966>[ 8:06 PM January 03, 2004: Message edited by: Diamond18 ] __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.

01-03-2004, 07:05 PM	#17
Carrûn Wight Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Behind you, counting to 3 Posts: 234	I will most likely be having a toast with the leftovers from the New Year's celebration... __________________ "Dic, hospes, Spartae, nos te hic vidisse iacentes dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur."

01-04-2004, 04:49 AM	#18
Daisy Brambleburr Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 334	I forgot. How incredibly lame is that? [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] __________________ 'What news from the South, O sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve? Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.'