Don't forget to drink a toast to "The Professor" on 3 January!



And you can also enter your name in the list of congratulators on the Tolkien Society website:
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but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

Yes, Ma'am!

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'You just said "your getting shorter": you've obviously been drinking too much ent-draught and not enough Prim's.' - Jude

I hope that all the 37 people who viewed this thread, even though they mostly didn't post here, did nevertheless enter themselves on the congrats list!

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but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

I'll be toasting him alright, but I'll probably not sign the form.

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The Vinyamars on Stage! This time at Bag End

I just like reading the list and finding entries from people from all over the world who are grateful to Tolkien, too, or want to honour him or remember him - I mean, in a way I find that on a Tolkien messageboard, too, but the birthday toast is even more universal, I think - and I like being a part of that, that's why I've always signed it in the past three or four years.

I'm just always a bit astonished that I hardly ever see a name that I know from any messageboard on that list - hence the advertisement.

Glad you'll be drinking a toast, though!

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but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

Been there, done that.

I saw TrueHeartedEasterling. No other name I recognized, though.

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Dig deeper.

To the Professor!

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"The Professor!"





And truehobbit, I hope!

I don't know TrueHeartedEasterling at all. I know some of the folks from the German Tolkien Society who usually sign.
I've got to go back and see if I find more names I know after having had the thread up for a bit now!

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but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

I found Hobby, OTB (presumably our Old Tom), Ivriniel from TORC (by her real name), and a few of my CoE buddies.

I didn't toast myself, but had a good piece of cake instead which I thought would well pass for a birthday cake.

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See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
~ Lao Tzu

Goldberry and I did indeed lift a glass of eggnog to "The Professor".

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Cheers to ole J.R.R on his birthday again!

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In gratitude forever … .

May his words live forever!

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Ever mindful of the maxim that brevity is the soul of wit, axordil sums up the Sil:


"Too many Fingolfins, not enough Sams."

Yes.

To the Professor, with many thanks.


I'm so glad you bumped this -- I had completely forgotten.

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And it is said by the Eldar that in the water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the sea, and yet know not what for what they listen.

To the Professor!

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Take my hand, my friend. We are here to walk one another home.


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To Tolkien!

How many others have written a work that can sustain being discussed so intensely for so long by so many people from so many different places; that can be loved by scholars and by teenagers; in which new things can always be found, so the teenagers can grow old loving it; that has brought such beauty into colorless or desperate lives, and shored so many people up against despair?

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

To Tolkien!

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Texas, Land of the Free, Home of the Tumbleweeds....

To Tolkien!

Yet another birthday for the great J.R.R. Tolkien. May his words live forever!

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In gratitude forever … .

I'll gladly raise a glass in his honor.

To J.R.R. Tolkien, with gratitude and appreciation that deepen by the year!

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.

Loving living in the Pacific Northwest.