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Wednesday, 3 January 2018

Ranatuor's Lore - "The Professor!" annual toast to J.R.R. Tolkien aka Ronald Dwale


He's wandered all over Middle-earth...

Each year Ranatuor hosts the Tolkien Toast to "The Professor!" Below is the invite that goes out to various places (Laurelin Archives, the official LOTRO forums, the Elders kinship, LOTRO ingame "World Chat", etc).

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[LAURELIN, EVENT, social] “The Professor!” – annual toast to JRR Tolkien aka Ronald Dwale, Wednesday 3rd January 2018, 8pm GMT(15.00 /servertime)

You are cordially invited to celebrate the Twelfthty Sixth (126th) anniversary of Professor JRR Tolkien’s birthday at the Bird and Baby Inn, Michel Delving, the Shire for a toast on the hour of 8PM GMT (15:00/servertime) on Wednesday 3rd January 2018. We’ll do the toast at 8pm GMT, so please arrive a little before, if possible!
We’ll raise a glass or mug to the Professor and then set off some fireworks in true Shire style. The wandering wizard Gandalf may not be available to attend!
Fireworks, pipeweed and drinks can be provided! All enquiries to Ranatuor (the Elders Kinship). This is a social event, RP and non-RP, Kin and non-Kin, everyone is invited.
We are following the Tolkien Society guidelines on this toast, details are here.
 
Laurelin Archives link: http://laurelinarchives.org/node/44959
We had a fantastic turnout in 2017 especially with it being the year of LOTRO’s 10th Anniversary and we had an extra special guest, SSG Community Manager Cordovan, who streamed the event live via the LOTRO Twitch feed! You can see some of that broadcast here.

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1 comment:

  1. Tim Bolton (Ranatuor)26 December 2017 at 13:48

    Some background information...

    Location
    Baby and Bird Inn is the in-game (and Oxford students’) nickname of a real pub in Oxford, the Eagle and Child, where the Inklings, a literary discussion group, used to relax, debate and drink. The group was formed of professors and well known authors, including JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.

    Making the toast
    “To the Professor!”
    /say To the Professor
    /toast emote (You can do “/toast To the Professor”)
    /drink emote (You can do “/drink To the Professor”)
    Use a drink item

    Tolkien Drinking Song
    "Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
    To heal my heart and drown my woe.
    Rain may fall and wind may blow,
    And many miles be still to go
    But under a tall tree I will lie,
    And let the clouds go sailing by."

    -- Fellowship of the Ring, chapter 4: A Short Cut to Mushrooms

    LOTRO, SSG and the Tolkien Easter eggs
    "But what if they simply flew in on giant eagles? No...that would never work...." – Ronald Dwale, Glass-blowers camp, Evendim.

    As well as the Bird and Baby, several members of the Inklings are represented in LOTRO, as part of the Writing Club –
    CS “Jack” Lews – NPC Jack Lewisdown
    Owen Barfield – NPC Owen Farfield
    Charles Williams – NPC Carlo Williams
    JRR Tolkien – NPC Ronald Dwale
    NPC Rabbit – nickname of the favoured back room of the Inklings in the Eagle and Child pub.

    http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/The_Bird_and_Baby_Inn
    http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Jack_Lewisdown
    http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Owen_Farfield
    http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Carlo_Williams
    http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Ronald_Dwale
    http://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Rabbit

    Eagle and Child, Oxford
    http://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/theeagleandchildoxford/
    http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/stgiles/tour/west/48_49_eagle.html

    The Inklings
    http://www.mythsoc.org/inklings/

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