This morning my son told me it’s Bilbo Baggins’ birthday, but he was wrong. According to Wiki, it was yesterday. Figures. As I recall, the kid missed his Dad’s last birthday too.
Maybe my math is wrong, but since Bilbo Baggins of Bag-End was 111 years old (or eleventy-one) in 1954 when Lord of the Rings was first published, that would make him 177 today, truly a remarkable age for a Hobbit, and far outliving the Old Took. And that makes Frodo 116, also a fairly respectable age.
Happy belated Birthday, Hobbits, and thag you very buch. I hope you guys are okay over there, and enjoy living with the elves in Tol Eressëa. We miss you.
Next year we will celebrate hobbit day by drinking ale by the pint (yes, they come in pints) and watching ‘Lord of the Rings’. Okay? Sorry, I blew it this year. I’ll buy you elevenses sometime to make up for it.