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My father is J.R.R. Tolkien nut and my family would have parties to celebrate Bilbo's birthday (September 22). The meals would slightly vary each year, but kept
by MattSteelblade 8y ago
My father is J.R.R. Tolkien nut and my family would have parties to celebrate Bilbo's birthday (September 22). The meals would slightly vary each year, but kept with the hobbit theme. We usually had bean soup, "a mighty dish of mushrooms and bacon," a roast, Yorkshire pudding, and a desert like a tart. The evening would conclude with a reading from his Lord of the Rings collection [1], which he would call The Red Book. He hasn't done one in a few years, but this was a tradition of his for almost 20 years.
[1]https://www.amazon.com/LORD-RINGS-Fellowship-Towers-Collectors/dp/B00M0NFYTC/ https://www.amazon.com/LORD-RINGS-Fellowship-Towers-Collecto...
- auntienomen 8y agoIn case you didn't know (and this is deep geekery, so I don't know why you would): It's a conceit of Tolkien's presentation that the story we're reading in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings was recovered from historical manuscripts written by Bilbo and the other hobbits, which were collected by later hobbits in a tome called the Red Book of Westmarch [1]. That big red leatherbound edition of the Lord of the Rings references this conceit. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch
- joshvm 8y agoThis is strongly hinted at in the movies. Bilbo's first appearance in Fellowship shows him finishing off The Hobbit (in a big red manuscript), and the ending of RoTK shows Frodo finishing off The Lord of The Rings before handing it to Sam.
- MattSteelblade 8y agoOh, I am aware ;)