eleventyone

While sitting at home doing nothing, I ask myself the question, ‘Why not create a multi-author blog?’ and a few hours later a blog is born. The tagline explains it all, ‘A blog about books, food, trams and life in suburban Melbourne.’ The title hints to a subtle geekery. Now let us begin our blog with a tale from long ago.

When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End; but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectible age for a hobbit.