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Middle-Earth Tours
Tour 2: The Places of Middle-Earth
Bag End
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Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag-End; but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33 an important number: the date of his 'coming of age.'--FotR, "A Long-Expected Party"
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Gandalf Comes to Hobbiton,
by John Howe |
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A Hobbit Dwelling, by John Howe |
The Hall at Bag End, by J.R.R. Tolkien |
an image from the official LotR movie site |
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Gandalf approaching Bag End, from the second commercial available on the official movie site |
an early spy photo from theonering.net |
Sam and Frodo, pic courtesy of theonering.net |
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A Long Expected Party, by Inger Edelfeldt
| After the feast (more or less) came the Speech. Most of the company were, however, now in a tolerant mood, at that delightful stage which they called 'filling up the corners'. They were sipping their favourite drinks, and nibbling at their favourite dainties, and their fears were forgotten. They were prepared to listen to anything, and to cheer at every full stop.
'My dear people,' began Bilbo, rising in his place. 'Hear! Hear! Hear!' they shouted, and kept on repeating it in chorus, seeming reluctant to follow their own advice. --FotR, "A Long-Expected Party"
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image from the official LotR
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Bilbo's speech, from theonering.net |
| Indeed, in one corner some of the young Tooks and Brandybucks, supposing Uncle Bilbo to have finished ... now got up an impromptu orchestra, and began a merry dance-tune. Master Everard Took and Miss Melilot Brandybuck got on a table and with bells in their hands began to dance the Springle-ring: a pretty dance, but rather vigorous. --FotR, "A Long Expected Party" |
image from theonering.net |
image from theonering.net |
image from theonering.net |
Full-size versions of these pictures are on display at Rolozo Tolkien, the official LotR movie site, and theonering.net.
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