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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.
Members of The Tolkien Society at the backyard of Eagle and Child during Oxonmoot 1979. 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 is widely known and accepted that Hogsback was the inspiration behind J.R.R. Tolkien's novels ‘The Hobbit’ and the ‘Lord of the Rings’ series. The name references its small size, its complicated call and the fact that it is found at the base of a large mountain in Hogsback." [124] Geocharidius balini Sokolov & Kavanaugh, 2014: Ground ...
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 ...
A directly photographed image: Exposure mode: Auto exposure: White balance: Auto white balance: Digital zoom ratio: 5.056856187291: Focal length in 35 mm film: 130 mm: Scene capture type: Standard: Speed unit: Kilometers per hour: Speed of GPS receiver: 0: Reference for direction of image: True direction: Direction of image: 249.94398472311 ...
The image was well-known at the time Tolkien was writing The Hobbit, as Shell had it painted on their oil delivery trucks. Berners's decision to construct the Faringdon Folly landmark, a tall tower atop a hill on his estate in South Oxfordshire, too, was controversial, and Tolkien is thought to have been very interested in the construction.
If the new version is too sharp, you can utilize the blur filter or tool to fix this, or use Colors > Levels to mess with the Alpha channel. Once it looks correct, save the image as a PNG. Then, to reduce file size, run it through a program like ImageMagick that supports 8-bit PNGs with alpha transparency, in order to remove any unnecessary ...
Gimli is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, appearing in The Lord of the Rings.A dwarf warrior, he is the son of Glóin, a member of Thorin's company in Tolkien's earlier book The Hobbit.