Welcome to a special edition of This Week in Middle-earth!
With Tolkien Week, Hobbit Day, and Feast Week right around the corner, the list of happenings within Middle-earth grows by leaps and bounds. While a full list of events can be found right here, we will also be announcing each event in real time on the Middle-earth News Twitter and Facebook social feeds. So, be sure to follow us!
Year 2941 – The Hobbit
September 21
- Bilbo and the Dwarves escape (from Thranduil’s Hall) in the afternoon
September 22
- Bilbo and the barrels reach Lake-town just after sunset
The evening meal had been taken to the prisoners. The guards were tramping away down the passages taking the torch-light with them and leaving everything in darkness. Then Bilbo heard the king’s butler bidding the chief of the guards good-night.
“Now come with me,” he said, “and taste the new wine that has just come in. I shall be hard at work tonight clearing the cellars of the empty wood, so let us have a drink first to help the labour.”
“Very good,” laughed the chief of the guards. “I’ll taste with you, and see if it is fit for the king’s table. There is a feast tonight and it would not do to send up poor stuff!”
[The Hobbit, Chapter 9: Barrels Out of Bond]
Year 3018 – The Lord of the Rings
September 18
- Gandalf escapes from Orthanc in the early hours
- The Black Riders cross the fords of Isen
September 19
- Gandalf comes to Edoras as a beggar, and is refused admittance
September 20
- Gandalf gains entrance to Edoras
September 21
- Gandalf meets Shadowfax
And there is one among them that might have been foaled in the morning of the world. The horses of the Nine cannot vie with him; tireless, swift as the flowing wind. Shadowfax they called him. By day his coat glistens like silver; and by night it is like a shade, and he passes unseen. Light is his footfall! Never before had any man mounted him, but I took him and tamed him […]
[The Lord of the Rings, Appendices]
September 22
- The Black Riders reach Sarn Ford at evening; they drive off the guard of Rangers
- Gandalf overtakes Shadowfax
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings
September 21
- They (the Travellers) return to Rivendell
- Saruman comes to the Shire
Year 3021 – The Lord of the Rings
September 21
- Frodo and Samwise set out from Hobbiton
Year 3082 – The Lord of the Rings
September 22
- Sam leaves for the Heavens
On September 22 Master Samwise rides out from Bag End. He comes to the Towe Hills, and is last seen by Elanor, to whom he gives the Red Book afterwards jept by the Fairbairns. Among them the tradition is handed down from Elanor that Samwise passed the Towers, and went to the Grey Havens, and passed over Sea, last of the Ring-bearers.
[The Lord of the Rings, Appendices]
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