# International J. R. R. Tolkien Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527 "2010-01-03T19:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/1 "2010-01-03T19:38:55Z")
Today’s J. R. R.'s birthday. Find a lost ring! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/2 "2010-01-03T19:42:53Z")
Tolkien is addictive! Very hobbit-forming. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/3 "2010-01-03T20:31:33Z")
Everybody meet under the Party Tree! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/4 "2010-01-03T20:47:12Z")
Happy birthday! Kill your friend and take his ring! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/5 "2010-01-03T21:15:55Z")
Happy Tolkienmass! ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/6 "2010-01-03T21:31:53Z")
Crazy - I was just having a (somewhat silly) dream about Barad-Dûr this morning! Clearly my subconscious wants to celebrate Tolkienmass. Cheers, everybody! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/7 "2010-01-03T21:33:26Z")
He’s eleventy-eight today! ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/8 "2010-01-04T00:03:00Z")
Where are the Proudfeet??? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/9 "2010-01-04T00:11:19Z")
LOTR: Return of the King is on TNT tonight. I plan to watch, but also gonna dvr it in case I’m tempted to check out the football game. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/10 "2010-01-04T16:59:47Z")
My ten-year-old and I watched the 1977 cartoon of _The Hobbit_ to celebrate. It actually wasn’t as bad as I remembered. Not quite. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/11 "2010-01-04T17:27:45Z")
For punishment for that comment, you are relegated to singing “Where there’s a whip, there’s a way” for the next fifteen minutes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/12 "2010-01-04T17:50:30Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Everybody meet under the Party Tree! You guys go first. I’ll be along as soon as I’ve looted all your houses of any Tolkien I currently lack. Also cash, jewels, & bearer bonds. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/13 "2010-01-04T18:11:38Z")
In honor of Tolkien’s birthday: I hereby resolve to never make use of a sword made of some kind of weird black metal by a psychologically unbalanced but powerful elf loner. I will especially not make use of it if I accidentally kill my best friend with it. If a horrifying primordial evil being takes a heirloom of mine or my father’s, I hereby resolve to not swear any oaths of any kind, and remind myself that no stolen possessions are worth leading my family and people into misery, suffering, and exile. I hereby resolve to not attempt to intervene between any family member and the person the they love; in particular, I will not send them on “hopeless” quests. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/14 "2010-01-04T19:31:22Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Where are the Proudfeet??? :eek: “That’s _Proudfoots!_” ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/15 "2010-01-04T20:09:41Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I hereby resolve to not attempt to intervene between any family member and the person the they love; in particular, I will not send them on “hopeless” quests. Fool of a Took! What do you think would have happened if Beren had NOT retrieved the Silmaril? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/16 "2010-01-04T23:01:20Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > For punishment for that comment, you are relegated to singing “Where there’s a whip, there’s a way” for the next fifteen minutes. 😃 If you are going to reference that, you are \*obligated \*to provide a NSFW link to Orcish Dominatrix Porn. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/17 "2010-01-05T00:34:34Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > If you are going to reference that, you are \*obligated \*to provide a NSFW link to Orcish Dominatrix Porn. [You asked for it…](http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2008/08/a-female-orc.jpg) (okay, SFW, but it’s damn tough to find something like that with orcs…) ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/18 "2010-01-05T00:55:10Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > [You asked for it…](http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2008/08/a-female-orc.jpg) (okay, SFW, but it’s damn tough to find something like that with orcs…) OK, and how do you propose to SCRUB THAT IMAGE OUT OF MY MIND??? :eek: :eek: :eek: I now sentence you to a three-page essay on the symbolism of Bromosel, son of Benelux and his prophecy of doom (he HAD to get worried about page 82, don’t you think???). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/19 "2010-01-05T01:31:32Z")
Guess what? I’m going to be reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings for the thirtieth time! ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527/20 "2010-01-05T07:11:42Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What do you think would have happened if Beren had NOT retrieved the Silmaril? New thread topic, imo. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-j-r-r-tolkien-day/523527.md?page=2)