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  2. Hobbit Day - Wikipedia

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    Celebration cake for Hobbit Day at the Green Dragon Tavern on the Hobbiton Movie Set, in 2016. Hobbit Day is a name used for September 22nd in reference to its being the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's popular set of books The Hobbit (first published on September 21, 1937) and The Lord of the Rings.

  3. Hobbit - Wikipedia

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    Hobbit holes or smials as depicted in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In his writings, Tolkien depicted hobbits as fond of an unadventurous, bucolic and simple life of farming, eating, and socializing, although capable of defending their homes courageously if the need arises. They would enjoy six meals a day, if they could ...

  4. Oxonmoot - Wikipedia

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    Oxonmoot is a conference and fan convention organized by The Tolkien Society devoted to celebrate and study the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It takes place every year in Oxford, England, around 22 September, the date of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins's birthdays, also known as Hobbit Day. [1]

  5. Newly discovered fossils shed light on the origins of curious ...

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    The study authors said their findings support an existing theory that the hobbits evolved their small size a long time ago and were most likely a dwarfed version of Homo erectus, the first ancient ...

  6. Tolkien's impact on fantasy - Wikipedia

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    His life is told of in the Deed of Ged and in many songs, but this is a tale of the time before his fame, before the songs were made. — Ursula Le Guin , A Wizard of Earthsea [ 54 ] In 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin published the high fantasy A Wizard of Earthsea , followed between 1970 and 2001 by her other Earthsea novels and short stories.

  7. Now you can visit a real-life ‘Hobbit Hole’ in New Zealand

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    The Hobbit sets – mostly facades built into landscaped hillsides – have operated as a tourist attraction in some capacity since 2002, but until recently most of the Hobbit Holes have been out ...

  8. House of the Day: A Hobbit Hole Fit for Frodo

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  9. List of kennings - Wikipedia

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    There is a connection to the word nesa meaning subject to public ridicule/failure/shame, i.e. "the failure/shame of swords", not only "where the sword first hits/ headland of swords" Kennings can sometimes be a triple entendre. N: Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Glymdrápa 3 ship wave-swine unnsvín: N ship sea-steed gjálfr-marr: N: Hervararkviða 27 ...