8:39 PM
For crying out loud, don't miss the comments thread in Teresa's post linking to the Tolkien pastiches, where some have began to produce their own fabulous tributes. Although I don't claim "fabulous" status, I did produce mine own:

Mr. Frodo Baggins lived, in late 3017, at Bag End, West Farthing, the house from which its famous owner had departed some sixteen years previous. He was one of the most noticeable visitors to the Ivy Bush, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished hobbit of the Shire. People said that he resembled Balbo--at least that his head was Balbonic; but he was a happy, tranquil Balbo, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.

Hopefully the web research I did to fill in a few details is sound...

UPDATE: And Teresa nails the source within nine hours. I suppose I could have gone with something horrendously obscure, like some of the others, but instead I went with one of my favorites (of course, among Teresa's readership, "horrendously obscure" and "favorites" are not mutually exclusive categories.)