Osgiliath by AbePapakhian
Year 2042 – The Hobbit
June 22
- Bilbo arrives at Bag End and finds the auction underway
‘Bless me! What’s going on?’ he cried. There was a great commotion, and people of all sorts, respectable and unrespectable, were thick round the door and many were going in and out – not even wiping their feet on the mat, as Bilbo noticed with annoyance.
If he was surprised, they were more surprised still. He had arrived back in the middle of an auction! There was a large notice in black and red hung on the gate, stating that on June the Twenty-second Messrs. Grubb, Grubb, and Borrowes would sell by auction the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins Esquire, of Bag-End, Underhill Hobbiton. Sale to commence at ten o’clock sharp. It was now nearly lunchtime, and most of the things had already been sold, for various prices from next to nothing to old songs (as is not unusual at auction). Bilbo’s cousins the Sackville-Bagginses were, in fact, busy measuring his rooms to see if their own furniture would fit. In sort Bilbo was ‘Presumed Dead,’ and not everybody that said so was sorry to find the presumption wrong.
[The Hobbit, Chapter 19: The Last Stage]
Year 3018 – The Lord of the Rings
June 20
- Sauron attacks Osgiliath
- Thranduil is attacked and Gollum escapes
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings
June 16
- The sons of Elrond, the escort and Arwen set out for Gondor
