I was scrolling through Facebook recently, feeling a little guilty about wasting time, when something totally different from the posts of dogs behaving badly and images of people's lunch stopped me. I don't normally feel I've missed out, but here were images of Hobbit Day on 22nd September, the birthday of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels. People dressed as hobbits and took part in a daylong party with music, food, dancing and probably Gandalf's fireworks to round off the ...


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