Celebrate Bilbo Baggins’s Birthday with 31 Lord of the Rings Memes

John Summers • Contributor

Sep 22, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Ah yes, September 22. A day that will forever live in hobbit history as the time Bilbo Baggins turned 111, dropped the mic on the Shire, and casually ghosted an entire party. Imagine being so extra that your birthday stunt accidentally sets off a chain of events leading to the destruction of a dark lord, the rise of a new king, and a bunch of hobbits traumatized by spiders. That's legacy.

So what better way to honor Bilbo's chaotic energy than with memes? Because if Bilbo lived in 2025, you know he'd be that uncle sending Frodo cursed memes about "when you put on the One Ring but still have to go to work the next day." The man invented the "Irish exit" before it was cool, and honestly, we should all aspire to that level of drama.

So raise your mug of ale, serve yourself some second (or third) breakfast, and scroll through the best memes this side of Mount Doom. They're funny, relatable, and just a little bit cursed - exactly how Bilbo would've wanted it.

Enjoy, my precious.