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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.
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]
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] It is a conference-cum-convention held in an Oxford college since 1991.
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This week, explore the origins of mysterious “hobbit” humans, ... Archaeologists previously found and pieced together fragments of the artifact during separate events in 1986 and 2012.
Foster attributes the surge of Tolkien fandom in the United States of the mid-1960s to a combination of the hippie subculture and anti-war movement pursuing "mellow freedom like that of the Shire" and "America's cultural Anglophilia" of the time, fuelled by a bootleg paperback version of The Lord of the Rings published by Ace Books followed up by an authorised edition by Ballantine Books. [8]
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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 ...