Tolkien Birthday Toast

Post by **truehobbit** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:27 pm

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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Post by **Inanna** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:09 am

Yes, Ma'am!

Post by **truehobbit** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:17 am

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!

Post by **Alatar** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:19 pm

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

Post by **truehobbit** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:11 am

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!

Post by **vison** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:02 am

Been there, done that.

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

Post by **Old_Tom_Bombadil** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:55 pm

To the Professor!

Post by **truehobbit** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:05 pm

"The Professor!"

I saw TrueHeartedEasterling.

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!

Post by **Rowanberry** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:02 pm

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.

Post by **Old_Tom_Bombadil** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:49 am

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.

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

Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:42 am

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

Post by **Sassafras** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:02 am

May his words live forever!

Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:16 am

To the Professor, with many thanks.

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

Post by **WampusCat** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:14 am

To the Professor!

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:18 am

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?

Post by **Trazúviel** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:56 pm

To Tolkien!

Post by **kams** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:15 am

To Tolkien!

Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:52 am

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

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:41 am

I'll gladly raise a glass in his honor.

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

Post by **Padme** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:45 am