Tokien same age as Bilbo

J.R.R. Tolkien fans will be toasting his honour tomorrow, the 111th anniversary of the academic and literary figure's birth.

Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Tolkien Society New Zealand president Natalie Sisson says that "111 years is significant because this is how we were introduced to the story of The Fellowship of the Ring - [hobbit] Bilbo Baggins was celebrating his 'eleventy-first birthday' with a great party for his friends and relatives".