The Professor's Birthday!: Bingo Bolger-Baggins

[bingo_bolger_baggins]

Hello! I'm taking a break from the current storyline here to celebrate Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's birthday today. It's 117 years since he was born. Please join me in raising a glass to him in a toast.



Care for a glass of champagne? I know I have some more glasses around here.



Are you ready? On the count of 3 . . .




TO THE PROFESSOR!!!!!



Without whom I wouldn't be here. In my retro-draft glory. Now I'm exhausted. Please have some more, so I don't finish it all myself and start singing Elvish karaoke, like some others around these parts.



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Comments

[lbilover.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you, Bingo! How kind! I don't mind if I do.

To the Professor!!

P.S., just a note of warning- you never know what you might get up to if you, erm, overindulge in champagne. I've witnessed some hobbits actually singing karaoke and doing a striptease :O

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Here's to the Professor! *clinks glasses with Bingo*

Lavender, I love the itty bitty glass and champagne bottle. They're perfect! And when he's sitting on the bench outside Bag End it looks like he's in a charming little Paris cafe with garden seating.

I will have to send a like to jan-u-wine so she can see this, if you haven't told her already. She's toasting the Professor herself tonight, but at an actual Tolkien get-together, not on line, lucky dog. :)

[melyanna-65.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, how lovely!!!

*joins Bingo in raising a glass to Professor Tolkien*

Mr. Bingo looks adorable on his bench in the front garden of Bag End!

So you have a miniature Bag End too? It's absolutely cute, I'd love to see more pics of it, if you don't mind!!

And dear Mister Bingo, may I come visiting you at Bag End when you're not busy? You know, dear gentlehobbit, I have a weakness for little homes and hobbit holes!

*hugs you and Mr. Bingo*

[jan-u-wine.livejournal.com]

....please forgive my late-i-tude....perhaps I am related to a certain wizard (definitely, I have a pointy hat....). I do hope the champagne has not become as deflated as a tyre of the Last Age.

Ah, Esqre, you see, you DO know some Francais! You are quite the bon vivant, sir! (btw, did you know that the word "karaoke" is the same in French as it is in English? Elvish, as well, although I hear that the snooty Quenya faction uses an entire chapter in "So You Want to Learn Quenya?" to translate this odd rite into an even more peculiar high-Elfalutin' *thing*).

In any case, I, being not so polished in my drinking manners as you, (and possibly of lesser means: just HOW much gold....stuff DO you have socked away in those Tol-ish tunnels, anyway?)happily raised a black-and-tan (or two) to the dear Professor last eve.

Re your comment to Mz. Mechtild in regards to us being 'fast friends'. For my part, I am honored to be your friend, sir....(ahem) fast or no.

À bientôt,

~jan