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Jan 30, 2013 02:30PM
"My dear people. My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, and Proudfoots... Also my good Sackville-Bagginses that I welcome back at last to Bag End. Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today! I hope you are enjoying yourselves as much as I am. I shall not keep you long, I have called you all together for a purpose. Indeed, for three purposes! First of all, to tell you that I am immensely fond of you all, and that eleventy-one years is too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable Hobbits. I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. Secondly, to celebrate my birthday. I should say: our birthday. For it is, of course, also the birthday of my heir and nephew, Frodo. He comes of age and into his inheritance today. Together we score one hundred and forty-four. Your numbers were chosen to fit this remarkable total: one gross, if I may use the expression. It is also, if I may be allowed to refer to ancient history, the anniversary of my arrival by barrel at Esgaroth on the Long Lake; thought the fact that it was my birthday slipped my memory on that occasion. I was fifty-one then, and birthdays did not seem so important. The banquet was very splendid, however, though I had a bad cold at the time, I remember, and could only say 'Thag you very buch'. I now repeat it more correctly: Thank you very much for coming to my little party. Thirdly and finally, I wish to make an ANNOUNCEMENT! I regret to announce that- though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you- this is the END! I am going. I am leaving NOW! GOODBYE!"
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LOL. I was cracking up throughout that entire speech!! " ... I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." LOL. Good old Bilbo. I was delighted to find him in the LotR too!! :D No spoilers, though, I haven't finished the Fellowship of the Ring yet :P
I love how he starts with My Dear People and then he names all of the groups of them!
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Come one I read the books 3 times each. I am going to watch the last movie soon.
*crying* i love that speech. It is just a memorable moment, including 'the ring's moment'!
I love how in the LotR he's still the same old Bilbo ... exactly as I would have imagined him a little older :)Lol Hope - "Goodbodies and Proudfoots ..." ("ProudFEET!")
Hornblowers just sound wrong, am I right or am I right?
I love the Sackville-Bagginses, who always seem to 'pop-up' at the oportune moment...they certainly tipify anoying relatives. (poor Bilbo).
Lucinda wrote: "I love the Sackville-Bagginses, who always seem to 'pop-up' at the oportune moment...they certainly tipify anoying relatives. (poor Bilbo)."Lol. Yup :) The S-Bs, lol. Lobelia and Otho ...
Avril *Revenge is Like A ghost* wrote: "Proudfeet!!"Yes xD
