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Joyeux anniversaire, dear frodosweetstuff!
I hope you have a lovely day filled with love, hobbits and everything you could wish for. Thank you for being always so generous and enthusiastic! Fandom wouldn't be the same without you.
I wish that RL were so kind as to let me finish writing the ficlet I wanted to give you in time, but unless today finds itself miraculously lasting a entire week, I'm afraid it won't happen... *resigned sigh*
So I thought I'd just quote what Tolkien has to say about hobbits and birthday parties. After all, we're here because of him and Frolijah gorgeous blue eyes, aren't we?:)
Bilbo Baggins called it a party, but it was really a variety of entertainments rolled into one. Practically everybody living near was invited. A very few were overlooked by accident, but as they turned up all the same, that did not matter. Many people from other parts of the Shire were also asked; and there were even a few from outside the borders. Bilbo met the guests (and additions) at the new white gate in person. He gave away presents to all and sundry -the latter were those who went out again by a back way and came in again by the gate. Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system. Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year it was somebody's birthday, so that every hobbit in those parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. But they never got tired of them.
FotR, A long-expected Party
*lots of love and hugs*
I hope you have a lovely day filled with love, hobbits and everything you could wish for. Thank you for being always so generous and enthusiastic! Fandom wouldn't be the same without you.
I wish that RL were so kind as to let me finish writing the ficlet I wanted to give you in time, but unless today finds itself miraculously lasting a entire week, I'm afraid it won't happen... *resigned sigh*
So I thought I'd just quote what Tolkien has to say about hobbits and birthday parties. After all, we're here because of him and Frolijah gorgeous blue eyes, aren't we?:)
Bilbo Baggins called it a party, but it was really a variety of entertainments rolled into one. Practically everybody living near was invited. A very few were overlooked by accident, but as they turned up all the same, that did not matter. Many people from other parts of the Shire were also asked; and there were even a few from outside the borders. Bilbo met the guests (and additions) at the new white gate in person. He gave away presents to all and sundry -the latter were those who went out again by a back way and came in again by the gate. Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system. Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year it was somebody's birthday, so that every hobbit in those parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. But they never got tired of them.
FotR, A long-expected Party
*lots of love and hugs*