Tag Archives: Bilbo

A Brace of Tolkien Posts for his 130th Birthday (#TolkienBirthdayToast)

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Brenton Dickieson

As J.R.R. Tolkien was born about 68,374,080 hours ago, the Tolkien Society is once again raising a toast to the Professor on his birthday, 3 January 2022 (see here). After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The … Continue reading →

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A Brace of Tolkien Posts for his 129th Birthday

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Brenton Dickieson

To celebrate Tolkien’s twelfthty-ninth (or eleventy-nineteenth–a joke that expires this year) birthday on 3 January 2021, the Tolkien Society is once again raising a toast to the Professor (see here). After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in … Continue reading →

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A Brace of Tolkien Posts for his 128th Birthday #TolkienBirthdayToast

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

To celebrate Tolkien’s twelfthty-eighth (or eleventy-eighteenth) birthday on 3 January 2020, the Tolkien Society is once again raising a toast to the Professor (see here). After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo … Continue reading →

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A Brace of Tolkien Posts for his 126th Birthday #TolkienBirthdayToast

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

To celebrate Tolkien’s twelfthty-sixth birthday on 3 January 2017, the Tolkien Society is once again raising a toast to the Professor. After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo toasted his uncle’s birthday each … Continue reading →

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A Brace of Tolkien Posts #TolkienReadingDay

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day! I have just hit the halfway point of The Silmarillion–my first time successfully reading it all the way through. Often I would start, enjoy the mythic material, then as the legendary stories of the … Continue reading →

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A Brace of Tolkien Posts (125th Birthday Week)

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

It is the week of Tolkien’s 125th birthday. In honour of the Professor’s twelfthty-fifth year, I thought I would catalogue the Tolkien posts featured here on A Pilgrim in Narnia. I hope you enjoy the great selection of guest bloggers … Continue reading →

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Toasting Tolkien’s 125th Birthday #TolkienBirthdayToast

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

News release from the Tolkien Society. To celebrate Tolkien’s twelfthty-fifth (125th) birthday on 3 January 2017, the Tolkien Society invites all Tolkien fans to raise a toast to the Professor. After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The … Continue reading →

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Toasting Tolkien’s 125th Birthday #TolkienBirthdayToast

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

News release from the Tolkien Society. To celebrate Tolkien’s twelfthty-fifth (125th) birthday on 3 January 2017, the Tolkien Society invites all Tolkien fans to raise a toast to the Professor. After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday in The … Continue reading →

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Tolkien’s Dickensian Dreams

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Originally posted on A Tolkienist's Perspective:
Dickens’ short story that inspired a Tolkien chapter This is somewhat a Tolkien paper I had written a while back, with the expressed intention to publish it one day. When that day never seemed to…

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A Catalogue of Tolkien Posts

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Tomorrow is J.R.R. Tolkien Reading Day (Mar 25, 2015)! I’m still working out what it is I’m going to read and write about. As I prepare this post–and as you tuck yourselves in to a great book tonight and tomorrow–I … Continue reading →

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