Ricki Crush Bandicute TarrThe Tolkiens knew how to party!
Ellen
Kierkegaanks regretfully@RickiTarr Oh god that’s rigid. I’m so happy he lived long enough to hypothetically have heard this hippie interpretation of his book
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fne-LDEbQc4&pp=ygUaYm8gaGFuc3NvbiBzYWdhbiBvbSByaW5nZW4%3D
Bo Hansson - Sagan om Ringen. Lord of the Rings. 1970. Progressive Rock. Full Album
Karen Conlin@RickiTarr this never, ever gets old
Dr.Ubertrout@RickiTarr
"Carriages at Midnight
Ambulances at 2am
Wheelbarrows at 5am
Hearse at Daybreak"
Apparently their parties went all-night and hard.
"Carriages at Midnight
Ambulances at 2am
Wheelbarrows at 5am
Hearse at Daybreak"
Apparently their parties went all-night and hard.
Mmm Kay
Mar :🌻@RickiTarr I love the ambulances and the hearses. Damn I wish I could have gone to that party.
Nazani
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@Nazani @RickiTarr imaging a load of drunk wizards at 4:00 am....
....well in a month I shall be among them at Glastonbury Festival!
@Lazarou @RickiTarr Last weekend I attended the Frederickburg Rennaissance Faire. Lots of shamans, D&D characters, tipsy folks, though they couldn't linger past 5 p.m.
@Nazani @RickiTarr they need to break curfew and truly go wild, like a UK Festival would, lol!
@Lazarou @RickiTarr The winery next door would definitely call the cops on them.
@Nazani @RickiTarr *Drunken Brit Voice "now what kind of facking alcoholic establishment is this? More wine you twats!"
Flaming Cheeto@RickiTarr on a *Wednesday* !!
I think an MMA fighter's publicist ripped this off "Cro Cop's signature move was his lightning-quick left high roundhouse kick, once famously described as "right leg, hospital; left leg, cemetery." (Wikipedia)
bytebroOMG, that's wonderful!
Ëtikēmik@RickiTarr The Lord of the Flings.
FediThing 🏳️🌈Yeah you have to keep reading to the end 😁
Hänzi Pōtter@RickiTarr I like the "rsvp if NOT coming" 😅 people back then had to go out of their way NOT to party
Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦
Michael Gemar@RickiTarr @pattykimura “We started recreational
It ended up all medical
[…]
It started in the vestibule
It ended in the hospital”
“Hot Soft Light”
The Hold Steady
Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua@RickiTarr @Mytholder you're probably aware of this? Sounds like a Warpcon party...
KanaMaunaComing of age party for a Sub-Lieutenant? Sounds like they were really reaching for an excuse there.
Wm.sonI could have said Dom-Lieutenant!
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@KanaMauna @RickiTarr I was curious about this too, so I found the Wikipedia article on "coming of age," which suggests that Sublieutenant Tolkien probably was turning 21.
But right below that, was this, which is amazeballs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_age
Sara@msbellows @KanaMauna @RickiTarr this sounds pretty fictional
it's like Jungle Dune Pain Box
Madeline Bodin@msbellows @KanaMauna @RickiTarr
CJR Tolkien was born 21 November 1924, according to Wikipedia, so it seems that was the occasion
clewLook again at the _date_. Their son survived to adulthood during a world war; his parents remembered losing so many of their friends in the last war.
@MadelineBodin @msbellows @RickiTarr
No, you’re right. I’m more accustomed to coming of age for early teens, but 21 is probably right for back then.
You’re right, 21 makes more sense for back then.
As to the ant thing, on the one hand that sounds like something people would make up to boast to outsiders. On the other hand, I was a teenager once…
P Stewart@KanaMauna @RickiTarr A sublieutenant who, given the timing, narrowly missed having to go to war in the Pacific. Given Tolkien's own youth he would have considered that an outstanding excuse for a party.
Simon LucyComing of Age was a Thing, Coming of Age at the end of a World War an even bigger Thing.
Yeah, though ‘let’s drink to dawn in honor of my son’ implies a couple who lived life very big.
For a Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Oxford possibly so, I think pretty much everyone was at the time.
dez_m011@RickiTarr You can be my first follow
Jim. From Kansas.@RickiTarr I envision JRRT telling bawdy stories in Sindarin, while CS Lewis pretends not to understand.
Falko@RickiTarr This is my kind of party!
Edelruth In The Wrong TimelineAh! So good!
Juggling With EggsThe biggest party we ever held was our wedding…the location was a hotel that we popped into by chance to have a cup of tea at the end of day of feeling disappointed by other places. They did a brilliant cuppa and scone which pleased my mum, but it was a sign on the wall that said J.R.R.Tolkien treated the place as his holiday home and annually came for months at a time that sealed it for my hobbit loving partner!
Loafer@RickiTarr Was he reaching the age where hair would start growing on his feet?
Amelia Bellamy-Royds 
@RickiTarr That is definitely the text equivalent of a "wait for it" clip.
I shared, and pretty much my entire family is committed to hanging in there until its hearse time 🤣
Space Invader@RickiTarr Just a few months after V-E day, I’d be partying like that too!
Josh 
🎶
Professor Tolkien knows how to party
Professor Tolkien knows how to party
In the city of Oxford
In the city of good, ol' 'Ford
In the city, on Northmoor Road
We keep it rockin'
We keep it rockin'
🎶
It does put a different spin on Bilbo‘s birthday party.
felis_catus_domesticussmoke it if you got it..
sometimes it just makes you introspective, other times it'll make you see a Balrog.
subcormorant asha 🏴 @RickiTarr
COOL! ❤️
COOL! ❤️
Trish Roberts
hairylarryCheck out the invitation in the parent post.
This post.