Toasting the Professor on His Birthday: January 3rd

Riv Res · Post by **Riv Res** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:27 pm

Happy Birthday Professor!

We are so much richer for this man's life. Happy Birthday Professor Tolkien!

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:50 am

To the Professor! in gratitude for one of life's enduring joys.

Lindariel · Post by **Lindariel** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:47 pm

"He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can."

Thank you, dear Professor Tolkien for lifting the glass up to our eyes and sharing with us this extraordinary world.

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:32 am

I don't think the Professor would mind sharing his birthday thread with Frodo and Bilbo. Happy Birthday, dear hobbits!

Lindariel · Post by **Lindariel** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:06 pm

A grand idea, Merry!

Happy birthday, dearest Bilbo and Frodo! May you have a party at which it "snows food and rains drink." Just don't set the Party Tree on fire with all those candles!

Kirill Leonov · Post by **Kirill Leonov** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:42 am

Let's bring in a huge lot of cake, then.

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:05 pm

It's that time of year again! Let's remember that January 3 is the Professor's birthday, and Tolkien fans around the world take the time to toast him appropriately. To the Professor!

We always try to have a mushroom-y delicacy with our ale.

Lindariel · Post by **Lindariel** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:12 am

This year, I'd like to toast The Professor with Eru's words, which brought Arda into Being (they also happen to be my signature line!):

Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be.

To you, dear Professor Tolkien, the true Flame Imperishable at the heart of Middle-earth.

marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:08 pm

This year I am toasting the Professor in tea, and saying:

Here's to you, Professor Tolkien: thank you! thank you! thank you!

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:26 pm

Tea for me also - although a good ale might be more appropriate if I had one, or a really good Guinness for a man that loved Ireland!

Happy Birthday, dear Professor

You have enriched our world in all the ways you hoped and in other ways you never imagined.
The road goes ever on and on indeed!!!!

Philipa · Post by **Philipa** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:00 pm

Happy Birthday Professor! I find it interesting this man who thought he was making a good tale has so many 'students'.

Merry · Post by **Merry** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:27 pm

It's 2010 and a good time to remind ourselves that tomorrow, January 3, is our beloved Professor's birthday! The protocol set by the Tolkien Society is that at 9:00 PM local time, we are to stand, raise a glass of our favorite beverage and say "The Professor". Reports of the details are to be made here.

Riv Res · Post by **Riv Res** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:32 pm

Count me in!

Lindariel · Post by **Lindariel** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:27 pm

How lovely! I'm already picturing the long, slow wave of hourly toasts gradually progressing around the globe tomorrow. Meliel and I will be adding ours, probably with her favorite beverage -- root beer!

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:04 pm

I shall definitely be toasting him in exactly one hour's time

. I think a nip of Bailey's will do the trick!

Happy Birthday, Professor. We'd be all the poorer without you.