Tolkien News

This Week in Middle-earth

middle-earth-map1115th July, 2941 [The Hobbit]

  • Thorin and Company leave Beorn’s in the afternoon

“That is all the advice I can give you. Beyond the edge of the forest I cannot help you much; you must depend on your luck and your courage and the food I send with you. At the gate of the forest I must ask you to send back my horse and my ponies. But I wish you all speed, and my house is open to you, if ever you come back this way again.”

They thanked him, of course, with many bows and sweepings of their hoods and with many an “at your service, O master of the wide wooden halls!” But their spirits sank at his grave words, and they all felt that the adventure was far more dangerous than they had thought, while all the time, even if they passed all the perils of the road, the dragon was waiting at the end.

[The Hobbit, Chapter 7: Queer Lodgings]

 

18th July, 3019 [The Lord of the Rings]

  • Éomer returns to Minas Tirith (during the months after the fall of Sauron)

 

19th July, 3019 [The Lord of the Rings]

  • The funeral escort of King Théoden sets out
Share with your Fellowship!
Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Comments are closed.