At the start of The Fellowship of the Ring, which birthday is Bilbo Baggins celebrating?
The Fellowship of the Ring edition". The title "The Fellowship of the Ring" refers to the group of chief protagonists. The Prologue is meant partly to help people who have not read "The Hobbit" to understand the events of that book. It also contains other background information to set the stage for the novel. The first chapter in the book begins in a light vein, following the tone of "The Hobbit". Bilbo Baggins celebrates his 111th (or eleventy-first, as it is called in Hobbiton) birthday on the same day, 22 September, that his younger cousin and adopted heir Frodo Baggins celebrates his coming of age
The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is a song composed by Charles Randolph Grean and performed by Leonard Nimoy, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins and his adventures in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel "The Hobbit". The recording was featured on "Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy," the second of Nimoy's albums on Dot Records. It was also released as a single (Dot Records Cat. #45-17028) in July 1967, backed with a "modern thought-image" folk song called "Cotton Candy". When the single was originally released, Nimoy lip-synched to the recording during a guest appearance on the July