Earlier today we reported that the following images were posters..baffled by the oddity of the images we doubted the authenticity…only to find out from up on high that these arent posters, they’re popcorn bags!
Month: September 2002
Dear Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and ProudFEET!!!, Sunday September 22nd is our dear friends Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ birthday. So please join us at 2pm under our very own party tree in Bag End, The Shire (aka Old Zoo Picnic Area, Griffith Park, Los Angeles) to celebrate! (And yes, there will be gifts for all!) [More]
LOS ANGELES RINGERS: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TORN’S PICNIC FOR BILBO’S BIRTHDAY
Dear Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and ProudFEET!!!, Sunday September 22nd is our dear friends Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’ birthday. So please join us at 2pm under our very own party tree in Bag End, The Shire (aka Old Zoo Picnic Area, Griffith Park, Los Angeles) to celebrate!
DIRECTIONS
From the North:
Take I-5 S to Los Feliz Blvd. Take Los Feliz Blvd. West. Stay in the far right lane, and make your first right onto Crystal Springs Dr. Follow Crystal Springs Dr. for about 1.5 miles to Griffith Park Dr. Make a left on Griffith Park Dr. It will curve to the right twice. The parking lot (Old Zoo Picnic Area) is right at the second curve.
From the South:
Take I-5 N to Griffith Park (lucky you, you get an actual exit for the park). Make a right at the first (and only) stop sign onto Crystal Springs Dr. Follow Crystal Springs Dr. for about 1.25 miles to Griffith Park Dr. Make a left on Griffith Park Dr. It will curve to the right twice. The parking lot (Old Zoo Picnic Area) is right at the second curve.
From Hollywood:
Take Western Ave. North. It will become Los Feliz Blvd. Make a left at the intersection with Riverside Dr. Riverside Dr. will become Crystal Springs Dr as you enter Griffith Park. Follow Crystal Springs Dr. for about 1.5 miles to Griffith Park Dr. Make a left on Griffith Park Dr. It will curve to the right twice. The parking lot (Old Zoo Picnic Area) is right at the second curve.
At the back of the parking lot is a gated-off road. You can walk past the gate. Follow the road to a big tree in the center of it and make a left to enter Bag End. For those of you carrying large items, or who cannot make the walk because of physical problems, there will be a Bag End Coach going back and forth to take you up to the picnic area. If it’s not there when you get to the gate, simply wait, and it will be along shortly.
If you get lost or have trouble finding the picnic’site, please call Sarumann at 213-248-4994 who will help you find your way through the darkness when all other lights go out…
FOOD AND DRINKS
Please contact Arwen at labirthday@theonering.net for food/drinks contributions. Most of you have already done that, but if you haven’t please don’t hesitate to do so now, as hobbits are notoriously and constantly hungry and there’s still room for more food at our picnic.
FUN AND GAMES
Besides eating, drinking and enjoying each other’s company, we will also have two contests:
- a Trivia contest, where you can all test your knowledge of the books and win great prices
- a Best Impersonation contest, where Gandalf, Legolas, Aragorn, Frodo or any other character wannabes will be given the opportunity to step into their hero’s shoes and perform any line of their choice from the movie. Prices will be awarded to the most impressive/accurate/funny delivery. So, pick your favorite line, rehearse and get ready to play!
COSTUMES
Costumes are not mandatory, but we encourage every Middle Earth inhabitant to come in their best regalia to honor Bilbo and Frodo.
MISCELLANEOUS
There is plenty of shade in our little corner of The Shire, but if the weather remains as nice and sunny as it has been lately, we recommend wearing hats and sunscreen.
Also, there are some picnic tables and benches available, but they may not be enough to seat such a great company of many excellent and admirable guests. So we encourage you to bring picnic blankets.
Any other questions you may have about the picnic, please contact Arwen at labirthday@theonering.net
Alan Lee will be doing a booksigning at the Barnes & Noble in Greenwich Village (396 Avenue of the Americas at 8th Street) in New York City on Friday, September 27, at 12:30 p.m. He will only be signing copies of his books at this event. No memorabilia, please.
This weekend, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the foundation stone of California’s state park system, completes a 100-day celebration of its 100th year. There will be two days of music, speeches and theater. Bluegrass bands will play. Dancers will dance. Tree-sitter Julia Butterfly Hill will speak. And a group of human-sized Hobbits will protest their current lack of welcome in the park, the result of a long-running squabble that boils down to fun vs. rules. [More]
HOBBITS PLAN TO CRASH PARTY EVICTED GROUP TO MAKE NOISE AT PARK’S BASH
By David L. Beck
Mercury News
A celebration just wouldn’t be a celebration without a protest. Not in Santa Cruz, at any rate.
This weekend, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the foundation stone of California’s state park system, completes a 100-day celebration of its 100th year. There will be two days of music, speeches and theater. Bluegrass bands will play. Dancers will dance. Tree-sitter Julia Butterfly Hill will speak.
And a group of human-sized Hobbits will protest their current lack of welcome in the park, the result of a long-running squabble that boils down to fun vs. rules. These Hobbits arose in 1978 not from Middle Earth but from San Jose State University.
What began as a birthday party at Big Basin — it was the birthday boy who named the party after J.R.R. Tolkien’s forest-dwellers — has evolved into an annual gathering. “Just regular folks,” said Hobbit Party organizer Gregor Nelson. “We’re not rabid Tolkienistas,” although he admits they were back in ’78. Nelson added, “It really just became a way for people who are far-flung and having busy lives and families and careers and all that stuff” to know that there’s a time and a place where they can still get together. The parties continued without interruption for more than 20 years, attracting in excess of 80 people, children included, each fall. But in 2001, their run at Big Basin ended.
Liz Burko, supervising ranger, described a series of permit violations involving primarily noise, trash and excessive numbers of cars and people that culminated in her order that they take their Hobbit Party elsewhere. The Hobbits will still have their party — later this month in Mendocino — but some of them also will be at Big Basin today.
“We’ll have signs,” said Janet Swanson of Sunnyvale. “We’ll play our whoopees,” which she describes as “little plastic things” like party favors. Nelson thinks “protest” is too harsh a term. “We might go and make a little noise,” he said.
“They’re welcome to purchase tickets,” Burko said.
“Anybody is. This is a celebration for us, and we want to celebrate it with the public.”