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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.
His son, Christian Tolkien (1706–1791), moved from Kreuzburg to nearby Danzig, and his two sons Daniel Gottlieb Tolkien (1747–1813) and Johann (later known as John) Benjamin Tolkien (1752–1819) emigrated to London in the 1770s and became the ancestors of the English family; the younger brother was J. R. R. Tolkien's second great-grandfather.
The classical world has been defined as "the history, literature, myths, philosophy, and society of ancient Greece and Rome". [5] It has been argued that since Tolkien's mythology for England was largely medieval, he needed a classical setting to provide a suitable impression of historical depth. [6]
The Tolkien Society Seminar is a day-long event held over the summer, consisting of a series of papers on a selected theme. [ T 2 ] [ 11 ] Oxonmoot is held on a weekend near to Hobbit Day , Bilbo and Frodo's birthday on 22 September. [ 12 ]
Fantasy before Tolkien: The Blue Parrot by H. J. Ford, for Andrew Lang's 1907 The Olive Fairy Book. J. R. R. Tolkien was an English author and philologist of ancient Germanic languages, specialising in Old English; he spent much of his career as a professor at the University of Oxford. [13]
Among the many influences of philology on his Middle-earth writings, Tolkien's visit to the temple of Nodens at a place called "Dwarf's Hill" and the subsequent philological study of an inscription with a curse upon a ring that he conducted, may have been seminal, inspiring his Dwarves, Mines of Moria, Rings of Power, and Celebrimbor "Silver-Hand", an Elven-smith who contributed to Moria's ...
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The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature is a free public lecture delivered annually at Pembroke College, Oxford University. The series was founded by Pembroke postgraduate students Will Badger and Gabriel Schenk in memory of J.R.R. Tolkien , who was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke from 1925 until 1945.