Feel free to join the Tolkien Society for an Eleventy-one Birthday Toast! “3rd January 2003 sees the eleventy-first (111th) anniversary of the birth of Professor Tolkien. This event, Bilbo’s age at the start of The Fellowship of the Ring, falls in The Tolkien Society’s 33rd anniversary year, our coming of age; thus the society is Frodo to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Bilbo at the Long-Expected Party (FotR chapter 1).” [via Brandy]
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Hehe, a customer in my bookstore was talking about that the other day … I was about the only employee who actually got it. Everyone else was like “Eleventy one? Huh?” It made me sad so I told them all to read the Lord of the Rings.