Happy [Belated] Birthday, Tolkien!

[dawn_felagund]

I am a day late on my toast because, as circumstance would have it, I was busy at work yesterday and then busy in my free time finishing up the SWG newsletter. While evidence of my membership in the "deplorable cult" would likely not please Tolkien were he alive to know my reasons for being late, I wish him a happy belated birthday nonetheless,

Comments

A late toast

[khatun]

I somehow doubt the time of the toast would really bother Tolkein. Toasts are best when done when you feel that toast is appropriate.

Salut! to the esteemed Mr. Tolkein.

[nelyo_russandol]

Like others in this thread I thought you had been a Tolkien fan for ever. I was. I first read LOTR when I was 15, and the Silmarillion as soon as it was available in Spanish (my English at the time wouldn't have coped with the original version). But 4-5 years later it did, and I was awed. I fell in love with the world. I made copies of the maps, I read them to the last comma of the footnotes and appendices.

When I found SWG, much, much later, I thought I had entered the treasure chamber of Erebor (without the dragon!) So thank you for all you do for us Tolkien lovers. And cheers to the Professor!