{"id":104015,"date":"2017-09-22T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=104015"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:41:55","slug":"happy-baggins-birthday-and-national-hobbit-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2017\/09\/22\/104015-happy-baggins-birthday-and-national-hobbit-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Baggins and National Hobbit Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s a day packed with Hobbity Goodness!\u00a0 Bilbo and Frodo Baggins share their birthdays today, September 22nd.\u00a0 Special celebrations are shared all over the world in honour of these most beloved characters of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels, The Hobbit<\/em><\/strong> and The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

September 22nd<\/sup> is also designated National Hobbit Day<\/strong>!\u00a0 In 1978, The American Tolkien Society dedicated this special day to the Hobbits of Middle-earth.\u00a0 Check your area for parties like TORn’s very own Baggins Birthday Bash<\/strong><\/a> on September 23 or have one of your own.\u00a0 It’s also a great day to curl up and read The Hobbit<\/strong>, LotR, or one of Tolkien’s many creations.<\/p>\n

Another special feature of the day is available through Weta Workshop\u2019s Hobbit Day Party Business Bundle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There has been a week-long Party of Special Magnificenc<\/strong>e on TheOneRing.net Discussion Boards<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 You can find links to the party activities here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, and a special Today in Middle-earth (TIME) entry here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a day packed with Hobbity Goodness!\u00a0 Bilbo and Frodo Baggins share their birthdays today, September 22nd.\u00a0 Special…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":104016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2627,18,148,159,152,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baggins-birthday-bash","category-merchandise","category-hobbit","category-torn-community","category-tolkien","category-production-weta-workshop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t