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Kim
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Oct 1 2014, 2:57am
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Birthday Mathom
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Today is my birthday and I received a sparkly pink birthday card from my brother with the following:
A Birthday Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, there was a princess who was like a size four or something. She could eat and drink whatever she wanted and always stayed really skinny and had flat, firm abs even though she never went to the gym. Every time she tried on jeans, the very first pair fit perfectly and made her butt look amazing. She lived in a great big, beautiful castle with her handsome, multimillionaire husband, who was busy all the time buying her giant diamonds, taking her to Hawaii, giving her foot massages, and telling her how beautiful she was.
One day, she was eaten by a dragon and no one cared.
The End.
Hope your birthday’s (even) better than a fairy tale.
And in the bottom corner, there was a cool drawing of a dragon, and next to it, my brother wrote “I know you like dragons!” 
I’d like to share that birthday wish with my fellow birthday girls Magpie and Aunt Dora Baggins! (Just to be clear, I'm sharing the wish that your birthday is even better than a fairy tale, not that you'd be eaten by a dragon). 
And now for a few favorite select photos (and as Eruvandi says, HTR Alert):
From the Sarah Dunn photoshoot 2013
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Magpie
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Oct 1 2014, 3:55am
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to you and Aunt Dora!
I've been sick... (she moans)
And it was coldish and grey out.
And my husband worked late.
But we celebrated a combo of both our birthdays last Sunday (his is the 21, mine the 30). So all is good.
Now I qualify for senior discounts. ouch.
I didn't really have a mathom but I did think of one this morning. How about recommendations for Tolkien and Tolkien inspired music one can buy or download (legally) for free? All of these are great and I'm not sure if people know about them.
Bilbo's Last Song sung by Malcolm Martineau Cantabile. There are two versions.
The Stephen Oliver version as heard in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (1981), with music by Stephen Oliver.
The Donald Swann version
All That is Gold by Brooks Williams - has extra lyrics written (I think) by Williams
Aniron - alternate version by Enya - this is an expanded version from what's heard on the soundtrack. It was only sold on Enya's album "Best of Enya."
Fellowship Going South Written by Leslie Fish, performed by Julia Ecklar. This is an old chestnut (for me) but I really like this song.
There are tons more I have and enjoy but many are now out of print.
LOTR soundtrack website ~ magpie avatar gallery
TORn History Mathom-house ~ Torn Image Posting Guide
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cats16
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Oct 1 2014, 7:19am
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Many happy returns for all three of you.
A very nice card, too.
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BlackFox
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Oct 1 2014, 8:56am
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And a very happy birthday to Aunt Dora as well!
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dernwyn
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Oct 1 2014, 10:22am
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Many happy returns of the day, Kim!
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Love that fairy tale - and thank you for the visual mathoms, for some reason I sort of expected you'd have something like these! 
Those cartoon RA-characters have been popping up in several places lately. I laughed when I saw his Rise Up Christchurch "dwarf" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrNF2fvHw4). But what in the world is John Proctor holding?
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dernwyn
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Oct 1 2014, 10:23am
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Aww...many happy un-sick returns of the day, Magpie!
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And thank you for the audible "mathoms", they're a treat for the ear!
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Dame Ioreth
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Oct 1 2014, 12:03pm
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And many happy hot dwarves.. errr..... returns of the day!
 sorry... preoccupied...
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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silneldor
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Oct 1 2014, 12:10pm
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I hope it was a great day.
" 'Fair lady Goldberry!' said Frodo at last, feeling his heart move with a joy that he did not understand. He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; but the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange."
Chapter VII: In the House of Tom Bombadil; FOTR's
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Grey Elf
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Oct 1 2014, 1:04pm
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Today is my birthday as well! (See thread above) I hope yours is outrageously wonderful, my friend.
And thank you for all the pretties  (*desperately looks for swooning couch*)
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" HeforShe
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The Grey Elf
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Oct 1 2014, 1:08pm
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and I have still more Tornsistahs! What lovely gifts for me. Very happy birthday wishes to you both, as well!! 
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" HeforShe
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Otaku-sempai
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Oct 1 2014, 2:41pm
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Many happy returns of the day! //
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'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Annael
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Oct 1 2014, 3:06pm
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that is an EXCELLENT birthday fairy tale!
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Happy birthdays to all o' youse.
To be sane we must recognize our beliefs as fictions.
- James Hillman, Healing Fiction
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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Oct 1 2014, 4:22pm
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A belated happy birthday to both of you!
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Mine was pretty low-key, and I completely forgot to post a mathom. So maybe I'll share my little trip to Lothlorien, including a meeting with an aspen-wizard. (At least that's what I saw looking at that tree.) I posted this here in a fiesta thread, but it was kind of buried in a reply.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Darkstone
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Oct 1 2014, 4:26pm
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Nice story!
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"My friend,” said Gandalf, “you had horses, and deeds of arms, and the free fields; but she, born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on.
“Think you that Wormtongue had poison only for Théoden's ears? ‘Dotard! What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among their dogs?’ Have you not heard those words before? Saruman spoke them, the teacher of Wormtongue. Though I do not doubt that Wormtongue at home wrapped their meaning in terms more cunning. My lord, if your sister's love for you, and her will still bent to her duty, had not restrained her lips; you might have heard even such things as these escape them. But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?”
“I'm gonna wash Rohan right outa my hair,
I'm gonna wash Rohan right outa my hair,
I'm gonna wash Rohan right outa my hair,
And I’ll be on my way!
“If a land don't understand you,
No matter how many regimes,
Saddle up, do not wait,
Don’t waste time at the weapontake.
Muster out of that roll call.
Ride Windfola out to your dreams!
“If the house of Eorl is nothing more,
Than a barn where brigands drink,
Their brats and dogs roll on the floor,
Then you know what the door is for,
Muster out of that roll call,
Wash Rohan into the sink!
“I'm gonna wash Rohan right outa my hair,
I'm gonna wash Rohan right outa my hair,
I'm gonna wash Rohan right outa my hair,
And I’ll be on my way!"
-Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Lord of the Rings
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Oct 2 2014, 2:04am
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Many happy returns of the day to you, Aunt Dora!
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And there's those gold-flecked streams again! Thus proving that all that is gold does not glitter...sometimes it flitters.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Oct 2 2014, 3:01am
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Kim
Valinor
Oct 2 2014, 5:20am
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Kim
Valinor
Oct 2 2014, 5:22am
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That's quite a birthday present - VHTR indeed! 
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Kim
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Oct 2 2014, 5:26am
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Yes, I'm sure no one was expecting those visuals from me. 
I know, aren't those cartoons adorable? John Proctor is holding his apothocary: https://twitter.com/...s/503166244275888129
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Kim
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Oct 2 2014, 5:27am
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Well, you never know, someday birthday wishes could come true.
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Kim
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Oct 2 2014, 5:29am
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It's been a fun couple of days! My birthday is kind of stretching into a birthday week.
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Kim
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Oct 2 2014, 5:32am
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Another birthday! Happy birthday to you too Grey Elf - will check out your thread shortly. You're quite welcome, and yes, I think we all need a swooning couch.
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Kim
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Oct 2 2014, 5:34am
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Kim
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Oct 2 2014, 5:37am
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Thanks Annael!
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