<<<<\/p>\n
3 January 2026<\/p>\n
<<<<\/p>\n
Happy<\/p>\n
New Year<\/p>\n
everyone!<\/p>\n
The 3rd of January<\/p>\n
is the first significant date<\/p>\n
for my fantasy literature<\/p>\n
scholarly calendar,<\/p>\n
because it\u2019s<\/p>\n
Tolkien\u2019s birthday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n He was born<\/p>\n in Bloemfontein,<\/p>\n now South Africa<\/p>\n (back then, Orange Free State),<\/p>\n on 3 January 1892, so this year marks<\/p>\n the 134th anniversary of his birth.<\/p>\n For many years now, myself<\/p>\n and many Tolkien students, scholars and fans across the world,<\/p>\n take part in\u00a0 a small ritual, established by the Tolkien Society<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n at 9pm local time, we raise a glass<\/p>\n and toast Tolkien\u2019s birthday:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Professor!\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <<<<\/p>\n https:\/\/dimitrafimi.substack.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n p\/2026\/01\/03\/<\/p>\n >>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <<< 3 January 2026 <<< Happy New Year everyone! The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40725,33672,4862,11043,40730,28406,14426,17597,951,17596,39521],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-alan-garner","category-b-diana-wynne-jones","category-b-dimitra-fimi","category-b-douglas-a-anderson","category-b-penelope-lively","category-b-susan-cooper","category-b-ursula-k-le-guin","category-b-verlyn-flieger","category-jl-fantasia-fantasy-fantasia","category-r-tolkien-on-fairy-stories","category-rev-halifirien-hfz2026-jrrt-tkn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155900,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155898\/revisions\/155900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grijalvo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}in-tolkiens<\/a><\/h2>\n
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