When it was announced in the Hall of Fire that they would shortly be celebrating their one-year anniversary with a party of special magnificence, much talk and excitement was expected in all the forums.
The Marshals in the Hall of Fire were not very rich but they were very peculiar and promised suitably astounding celebrations for the day.
The volume and quality of friends they had made on their travels was a matter of local legend, and it was popularly believed, whatever the oldbies might say, that the Naith in the Hall of Fire was full of tunnels stuffed with things belonging to other people.
If that were not enough, there is the fact that these friends had kept the Hall of Fire thriving for a whole virtual year, which, as everyone knows, is the same as five real-life years. Though HoF was not unchanged from its beginnings, it definitely was being well-preserved.
There are some who shake their heads and think this too much of a good thing. It seems unfair that any message board should possess both younger people and older people, male people and female people, gay people and straight people, artists and musicians, religion and politics, scholars and acrobats, people on one side of the Atlantic Ocean and people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean ... without coming apart at the seams. And surely it is by elvish magic that there is seated at the same hearth both the Spirit of Professor Tolkien and a cat. Not to mention the tunnels stuffed with other people’s things.
“It will have to be paid for,” we heard, over the telephone, from voices that disguised themselves by talking through pillow cushions.
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And so it shall be paid for, dear friends and beloved members of this community, with a party of special magnificence to celebrate the First Year Anniversary of the Hall of Fire on Friday, December 1, 2006.
There will be some fun and games and some fabulous prizes, and of course a hobbit-sized breakfast, second breakfast, bruncheon, luncheon, supper, dinner, and filling in the corners with the foods brought to our table by all our members over the past year. We promise to cook them fresh and not serve year-old leftovers.
If you have any ideas popping into your head for how to augment our anniversary celebrations in glamorous fashion, please tell us about them here. Or .. surprise us on December 1.
Voronwë the Faithful
Jnyusa
Primula Baggins
Sassafras
truehobbit
Athrabeth
Cerin
Whistler
