Second Breakfast

Today is the 75th anniversary of JRR Tolkein's The Hobbit . Celebrate today with second breakfast at 11am.

"Good morning sir!"

That would be 11sies, it comes after second breakfast.

I'll snack on some pita chips and home made hummus about that time.

Don't forget the fireworks.

One does not simply have second breakfast without roasted sausages and tomatoes.

In reply to Sky_Render:

And mushrooms. Just don't let old Farmer Maggot catch you.

Second breakfast demands second trailer

jg

What about lunch? Dinner? Supper?

He does know about those, doesn't he?

I just started reading the Hobbit to my kids this week.

Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: I just started reading the Hobbit to my kids this week.

This means you are officially an awesome parent.

I had a second breakfast yesterday. A contractor gave me a Hardee's sausage biscuit. It ended a few hours later with what I could only describe as Niagra Falls.

I ate a lot if sunflower seeds that morning.

ultraclyde wrote: What about lunch? Dinner? Supper? He does know about those, doesn't he?

he doesn't consider it a meal when he just has a beer.

I heard that Tolkein developed his own language for the books, anyone who makes their own language gets a thumbs up from me.

I smoked some pipeweed instead. Does that still count?

benzbaronDaryn wrote: I heard that Tolkein developed his own language for the books, anyone who makes their own language gets a thumbs up from me.

That explains why I never got past page one.

He came up with languages for the Elves, Dwarfs and the Orks if I remember correctly.

I find it fascinating that he actually wrote most, if not all, of the back story for the Lord of the Rings. You can find the legends and stories of most of the the people mentioned historically in the book in the Silmarillion.

The amount of work he put into the world of Middle Earth is amazing.

Talking about the Hobbit, he wrote it as a Christmas present for his kids,how cool would that be.

Sweet. I will do that, considering breakfast is going to be right now (on 3rd shift, I just woke up!) and then when the wife gets home later and eats dinner I'll eat then, too.

I shaved my feet.

Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: Talking about the Hobbit, he wrote it as a Christmas present for his kids,how cool would that be.

He wrote it the first time over several years while working as a professor. He rewrote it several times in the rest of the years of his life. Just as he wrote, and rewrote the various related books of the Silmarillion and what is now known as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The Hobbit was dismissed as a mere childs story by critics when first published. Only later after some of his other works were published did The Hobbit get recognized as more.

There is no evidence I know of, of it being written for his kids or as a Christmas present.

In reply to foxtrapper:

You may be correct, though I swear I read it in a biography a few years ago.

EDIT:

OK, put it down to a faulty memory, it look like he wrote "The Father Christmas Letters" to his kids, sorry about that.