Today, as most of us know, is Bilbo & Frodo’s birthday! September 22nd is a red letter day for all LOTR fans. Every journey has a first step, and this is the day it all started. Cheers to Bilbo & Frodo!
Month: September 2004
Today is Sala Baker’s Birthday! Sala was born on September 22nd, 1976 in Wellington, New Zealand. That makes him 28 years old today! Happy Birthday Sala!
Tonight is the premiere of a few choice tv shows. Not least of which is the latest ABC drama ‘Lost’. The show features Dominic Monaghan and an ensemble cast of plane crash survivors on a deserted island. Check local listings for this one!
When Dominic Monaghan came zooming back from Middle Earth, he hit with a resounding thud. “My first year in Los Angeles was pretty hellish,” says the British actor who played Merry in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. “I came over here after the high point of ‘Lord of the Rings,’ and I saw all my friends jumping around to jobs, and I had nothing.” [More]
Dawn Lux Sprague writes: The gown I designed, made and wore to the Return of the One Party in L.A. has won third place in the garment category of Sew News’ Magazine’s “Design with Doupioni” contest. With inspiration from Tolkien and LOTR, the gown’s design depicts a tree, complete with face and open eyes, wrapped around the body and arms of the dress over a simple forest scene. It is made from 109 individual pieces of doupioni silk in 13 different colors and is embellished with a seed bead moon and Swarovsky crystals as stars. It took approximately 250 hours and two months to design and make. It will be on display at the American Sewing Expo in Novi, Michigan on October 1-3, 2004.
Arwen writes: The third edition of TORN’s Baggins Birthday picnic, which took place this Sunday September 19th in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, turned out to be once again a party of special magnificence. The weather was a delightful mix of bright sunshine, blue skies, and thanks to a constant breeze which occasionally swelled up to a wicked wind, the temperature remained pleasant -when the previous two years had been scorchingly hot. [More]