Tolkien Birthday Toast

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Tolkien Birthday Toast

Post by truehobbit »

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

:cheers:

And you can also enter your name in the list of congratulators on the Tolkien Society website:
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Post by Inanna »

Yes, Ma'am! :)
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:D

:hug:

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! :D
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I'll be toasting him alright, but I'll probably not sign the form. :)
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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. :P :D

Glad you'll be drinking a toast, though! :)
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Post by vison »

Been there, done that.

I saw TrueHeartedEasterling. No other name I recognized, though.
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To the Professor!

:cheers:
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"The Professor!" :D

:cheers:
I saw TrueHeartedEasterling.
And truehobbit, I hope! :D

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! :D
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Post by Rowanberry »

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. :D
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Rowanberry wrote: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. :D
Goldberry and I did indeed lift a glass of eggnog to "The Professor". :)
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Post by Voronwë the Faithful »

Cheers to ole J.R.R on his birthday again!
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May his words live forever!

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Post by MaidenOfTheShieldarm »

To the Professor, with many thanks. :cheers:


I'm so glad you bumped this -- I had completely forgotten. :oops:
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To the Professor! :cheers:
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Post by Primula Baggins »

To Tolkien! :cheers:

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? :love:
“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.”
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To Tolkien! :cheers:
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To Tolkien! :cheers:
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Post by Voronwë the Faithful »

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

:cheers:
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Post by Primula Baggins »

I'll gladly raise a glass in his honor.

To J.R.R. Tolkien, with gratitude and appreciation that deepen by the year! :cheers:
“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.”
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:birthday:
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