Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

In honor of my birthday today (whoop!), we are planning our ideal fictional birthday party.

Answer the following prompts with your favorite book, character, or setting:

Perfect place for a birthday party:
Five characters you must have on your guest list:
Best party planner:
Party favors (item from a book):
Gift you'd love to receive:
Character you'd absolutely NOT want at your party:

Happy Birthday, Emily!

I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind, but having recently read The Hobbit, I thought it'd be perfect in fulfilling all the prompts.

Perfect place for a birthday party:
The Shire
Five characters you must have on your guest list:
Bilbo, Thorin, Fili, Kili, Radagast
Best party planner:
Gandalf
Party favors (item from a book):
Sting
Gift you'd love to receive:
Gold
Character you'd absolutely NOT want at your party:
Smaug

Happy Birthday, Emily!! Today is my daughter's Birthday, too!! (we went to Mario Bros movie, hope you had a good day!)

Perfect place for a birthday party: Pre-Revolution Russia, ala early in Dr Zhivago

Five characters you must have on your guest list: I'll get back to this one...

Best party planner: Cinna, The Hunger Games

Party favors (item from a book): Mockingjay pins, also Hunger Games

Gift you'd love to receive: Does someone get a library? I'm sure there's several books where someone gets a library to themselves, but my brain isn't pulling it up.

Character you'd absolutely NOT want at your party: Dementors Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Perfect place for a birthday party: center of a hedge maze - if you make it to the center, you get tea and cake! (But lots of hints and balloon markers to help, because a birthday maze shouldn't be that challenging.)
Five characters you must have on your guest list: Elizabeth Bennet, Hermione Granger, The Dread Pirate Roberts Wesley, Morwen from Calling on Dragons and all her talking cats (they count as one person, right?), Celia from The Night Circus so she can have some time off and maybe do fun tricks for entertainment
Best party planner: Peony from Spindle's End would do a great job of taking whatever collection of weirdos I invited and somehow helping them all have a good time, I think.
Party favors (item from a book): the bottled memories from The Night Circus would be really fun
Gift you'd love to receive: books would be too easy, wouldn't it? I am an absolute fiend for kettle corn? Mostly I don't want to burden people with having to bring me stuff!
Character you'd absolutely NOT want at your party: Voldemort. You just know that guy would want to be the center of attention all the time.

Perfect place for a birthday party: The House in the Cerulean Sea

Five characters you must have on your guest list: Jane Austen's Emma, Hermione from Harry Potter, Jo March from Little Women, Thursday Next from the books by Jasper Fforde Mary Russell from the Holmes books by Laurie R. King - all smart women!

Best party planner: Andrea from Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection. She can cope with anything.

Party favors (item from a book): the Queen's diamond studs from The Three Musketeers

Gift you'd love to receive: a lifetime pass to The Night Circus - or a time machine to travel to the eras of my favorite books.

Character you'd absolutely NOT want at your party: Professor Moriarty

Perfect place for a birthday party: The Hundred Acre Wood from Winnie-the-Pooh.

Five characters you must have on your guest list: Luna from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix etc.; Dorothea from Middlemarch; Adunni from The Girl with the Louding Voice; Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility; Pliny from The House with the Golden Door.

Best party planner: Jeeves from Right Ho, Jeeves etc.

Party favours: Sweet Desserts

Gift you'd love to receive: the actual painting of Girl with the Pearl Earring (dream on ...)

Character you'd absolutely not want at your party: Hyde from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories