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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Happy Birthday, Bilbo Baggins (and The Hobbit)
On this date, September 21st, in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien's estimable The Hobbit was first published by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London.
Within the literary universe of Middle Earth, moreover, September 22nd is also the birth date of both Bilbo Baggins and that of his cousin Frodo. I just happened to find the coincidence fascinating.
I first read The Hobbit back in 1977 as a summer reading assignment. It was a book I was aware of because of my early immersion into geek topics like monsters and science fiction, but I had never been driven to read it until then. To say that I loved it would be understating it. I devoured it, gulped it down, internalized it, and that book, along with James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, gave me a mental picture of England that I would retain for years. I love Middle Earth and all its versions, including Rankin-Bass, Bakshi, BBC Radio, and Jackson, but this one, this Hobbit, is the main one.
Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo. May the stars shine on you.
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Now playing: Jack Johnson - The Sharing Song
via FoxyTunes
Within the literary universe of Middle Earth, moreover, September 22nd is also the birth date of both Bilbo Baggins and that of his cousin Frodo. I just happened to find the coincidence fascinating.
I first read The Hobbit back in 1977 as a summer reading assignment. It was a book I was aware of because of my early immersion into geek topics like monsters and science fiction, but I had never been driven to read it until then. To say that I loved it would be understating it. I devoured it, gulped it down, internalized it, and that book, along with James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, gave me a mental picture of England that I would retain for years. I love Middle Earth and all its versions, including Rankin-Bass, Bakshi, BBC Radio, and Jackson, but this one, this Hobbit, is the main one.
Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo. May the stars shine on you.
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Now playing: Jack Johnson - The Sharing Song
via FoxyTunes
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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