I can take or leave LOTR, The Silmarillion, what have you, but if he wrote nothing other than the postscript to this invitation card, J.R.R. Tolkien would have a secure place in history.
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Tolkien sometimes would attend parties dressed as a polar bear, once chased a neighbor around while dressed as an axe-wielding anglo-saxon warrior, and was known to regularly hand his false teeth as payment when buying things from shops.
Wonderful. This reminded me of something else Tolkien wrote for his children - the Father Christmas Letters. Rambling tales of Father Christmas’s adventures throughout the year with his well-meaning helper Polar Bear. Funny, personal, surprising. Illustrated by the author.
Best invitation ever 😆 Though I find it curious that they were celebrating their son’s coming of age, after he came back already a fighter pilot of WWII
Back then in the UK, the adult legal age was 21 (changed in the 1960s, I think?). However, the Brits had conscription in WW2 for all men aged 18-41, so legally non-adult men were sent to war as well.
He reused it in LoTR. "About midnight carriages came for the important folk. One by one they rolled away, filled with full but very unsatisfied hobbits. Gardeners came by arrangement and removed in wheelbarrows those that had inadvertently remained behind."
I agree but not enough to let you off the hook for “take or leave LOTR”
I’ve read it so many times since I first discovered it in the 5th grade!
hell, I’ve read the series out loud twice- for each son.
SMH.
I did not know that Hobbits were autobiographical. That definitely sounds like something a resident of the Shire would write. Thanks for teaching me something today.
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He was a party animal.
Hope so, hehe
I’d imagine very important information if said party was being attended by trolls.
“And I’ll rule them all, wherever they may be”
(Sshh, don't tell JRR!)
But I agree that this is great.
Yes. there was a need to say this.
I’ve read it so many times since I first discovered it in the 5th grade!
hell, I’ve read the series out loud twice- for each son.
SMH.
You don't say? This is straight out of LOTR. Definitely by the same hand.
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bilbo%27s_Farewell_Party
The LOTR is one of the greatest fantasy novels in the English language (and it's not btw, a childrens book) The Silmarillion... Nahh! 🙂
I know that my favorite bar is often the one closest to my house.
😐🤣
Its got to be some of the most dense writing of all time. Like 3 out of the first 5 pages are just names!
HELP 🤣