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LotR question
Nov. 26th, 2005 11:18 pmOdd, I know, to be asking about Lord of the Rings when all the current talk is of Harry Potter, but I saw something and it's been buggin me.
I was watching FotR with Jeff a few nights back. At the begining, in Bilbo's narration while he's writing of the book, he mentions the date. September 22nd. His eleventy-first birthday. Not mentioned, of course, is that it's also Frodo's thirty-third bithday.
My books are all packed up and I don't want to unpack them to dig around and find this...
Does Tolkein mention in the books the date of their birthday? Or is that something Pete came up with himself? If Tolkein mentioned it, where did he say?
If Tolkein himself decided on that date... well... my Sam should have been a Bilbo or a Frodo! Entirely unplanned, not realizing at all the significance of the date, and coming 3 weeks early and totally unplanned, my Sam was born September 22nd. How's that for irony?
I was watching FotR with Jeff a few nights back. At the begining, in Bilbo's narration while he's writing of the book, he mentions the date. September 22nd. His eleventy-first birthday. Not mentioned, of course, is that it's also Frodo's thirty-third bithday.
My books are all packed up and I don't want to unpack them to dig around and find this...
Does Tolkein mention in the books the date of their birthday? Or is that something Pete came up with himself? If Tolkein mentioned it, where did he say?
If Tolkein himself decided on that date... well... my Sam should have been a Bilbo or a Frodo! Entirely unplanned, not realizing at all the significance of the date, and coming 3 weeks early and totally unplanned, my Sam was born September 22nd. How's that for irony?