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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. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

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    Part III: "Word Studies", which takes over half of the book, looks at over 100 individual words used by Tolkien, arranged alphabetically. Hobbit is given ten pages, but halfling also appears. Farthing, mathom and smial are also hobbit-related (the latter being philologically grouped with Smeagol and Smaug); Arkenstone and dwimmerlaik less so.

  4. The Road Goes Ever On (song) - Wikipedia

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    The second version appears in Book 1, Chapter 3. It is identical to the first, except for changing the word "eager" to "weary" in the fifth line. It is spoken aloud, slowly, by Frodo, as he and his companions arrive at a familiar road – the Stock Road – on their journey to leave the Shire. [T 3]

  5. Proverbs in The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    "Where there's a whip there's a will": Orcs driving a Hobbit across the plains of Rohan. Scraperboard illustration by Alexander Korotich, 1995 . The author J. R. R. Tolkien uses many proverbs in The Lord of the Rings to create a feeling that the world of Middle-earth is both familiar and solid, and to give a sense of the different cultures of the Hobbits, Men, Elves, and Dwarves who populate it.

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    Trump and his proposed policies have been viewed as potentially more inflationary due to the president-elect's campaign promises of high tariffs on imported goods, tax cuts for corporations, and ...

  7. Poetry in The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    The verse is not translated in the chapter, though it is described: "the sweet syllables of the elvish song fell like clear jewels of blended word and melody. 'It is a song to Elbereth', said Bilbo", and at the very end of the chapter there is a hint as to its meaning: "Good night! I'll take a walk, I think, and look at the stars of Elbereth in ...

  8. “Wicked ”Director Jon M. Chu Admits 'Everything Scared' Him ...

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    The original story, L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is “so embedded in our culture and how we see story, how we see ourselves,” Chu explained while ...

  9. Indiana gives Curt Cignetti a new contract after 10-0 start ...

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    It didn’t take long for Indiana to give Curt Cignetti a contract extension. The school announced Saturday morning that it had signed its first-year coach to an eight-year contract extension.