{"id":60890,"date":"2012-08-16T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=60890"},"modified":"2012-08-16T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:23:59","slug":"just-in-time-for-second-lunch-world-hobbit-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/16\/60890-just-in-time-for-second-lunch-world-hobbit-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in time for Second Lunch, World Hobbit Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malaprop’s Bookstore and cafe in North Carolina will be a\"\"<\/a> hosting a party of special magnificence on Hobbit Day, September 22nd at 3pm it also happens to be a 75th Anniversary celebration since the publication of The Hobbit<\/em>, they’ll have prizes and are holding a costume contest.<\/p>\n

Hobbit Day was first proclaimed by The American Tolkien Society in 1978 to be on the 22nd September to celebrate both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins birthdays, it also falls on Tolkien Week which is in the same calendar week in September.\u00a0 There is some debate however on the actual date to celebrate Hobbit Day due to discrepancies between the Shire Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar with some celebrating it on September 14.<\/p>\n

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