Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring

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Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring is the humorous and pivotal party address at his eleventy-first birthday where he mysteriously vanishes using the One Ring, setting the main events of the story in motion.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional event
scene in a novel
speech
appearsInChapter A Long-expected Party
celebratesAge Bilbo's 111th birthday
Frodo's 33rd birthday
createdBy J. R. R. Tolkien
followedBy Bilbo putting on the One Ring
Bilbo's sudden disappearance from the party
hasAdaptation Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring self-linksurface differs
surface form: Bilbo's birthday speech in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film
hasAudience Baggins family
Frodo Baggins
Gandalf
Hobbits of Bywater
Hobbits of Hobbiton
Baggins family
surface form: Sackville-Baggins family
hasDateInFiction 22 September 3001 of the Third Age
hasGenre fantasy literature scene
hasNotableLine I am eleventy-one today
I am going
I am leaving now
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like
and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
hasOccasion joint birthday party of Bilbo and Frodo
hasOpeningWords My dear people
hasSpeaker Bilbo Baggins
hasTheme farewell
the end of an age
the passing of responsibility
isTurningPointFor Bilbo Baggins
Frodo Baggins
the history of the One Ring
language Westron
surface form: Westron (in-universe)
languageOfPublication English
narrativeFunction foreshadows Bilbo's departure from the Shire
helps set the main plot of The Lord of the Rings in motion
initiates the transfer of the One Ring to Frodo
marks Bilbo's farewell to the Shire
partOf The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
surface form: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings
preparationBy Gandalf's fireworks display
takesPlaceAt Bag End
takesPlaceDuring Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday party
takesPlaceIn The Shire
tone humorous
playful
slightly insulting

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Bilbo Baggins notableScene Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring
Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring hasAdaptation Bilbo's birthday speech in The Fellowship of the Ring self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Bilbo's birthday speech in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film