read_lotr_aloud has suggested a Special Reading for The Birthday on September 22: "Pick out something Bilbo and/or Frodo oriented to read. It can be a scene from the books, a scene from one of your favorite fanfics, something Tolkien might have said about either of them in his Letters, or perhaps something someone else has written about them in some other sort of non-fiction--just so long as it features one or both of our favorite Bagginses. When you have made your post, put a link to it here on
this post by the 21st, and on the 22nd, we will post the links."
My contribution below is a small portion of
liptonrm's 2004 fic, "To See the Elves", in which Bilbo has a wonderful surprise planned for Frodo during a camping trip.