This Week in Middle-earth
Year 2941 – The Hobbit July 15 The company leaves Beorn’s in the afternoon Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings July 18 Éomer returns to Minas Tirith July 19 The funeral escort of […]
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This Week in Middle-earth
Year 2941 – The Hobbit March 15 Gandalf meets Thorin and talks with him at the Prancing Pony in Bree Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 10 The Dawnless Day The Muster […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 2 Frodo comes to the end of the Marshes Gandalf comes to Edoras and heals Théoden The Rohirrim ride west against Saruman Second Battle of […]
Happy Birthday, Bernard Hill!
Best known among the Tolkien community for his portrayal of Théoden, King of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings, Bernhard Hill enjoyed a long and exciting career on screen and on stage. Today, Hill […]
The Future of Middle-earth
When the events of The Lord of the Rings begin to take place, Middle-earth is identified to be a dying world “for lack of reproduction” (Drout 26). The time of Elves and Ents comes to […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 3018 – The Lord of the Rings August All trace of Gollum is lost. It is thought that at about this time, being hunted both by the Elves and Sauron’s servants, he took refuge […]
Beowulf: The Lost King of Rohan
An Anglo-Saxon Connection The Anglo-Saxon epic has been acknowledged many times as one of the major sources of inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The world in the poem is easily comparable to Rohan […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 2941 – The Hobbit March 15 Gandalf meets Thorin and talks with him at the Prancing Pony in Bree Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 10 The Dawnless Day The […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings March 3 Théoden retreats to Helm’s Deep Battle of the Horn-burg begins Ents complete the destruction of Isengard March 4 Théoden and Gandalf set out from Helm’s […]
This Week in Middle-earth
Year 3019 – The Lord of the Rings February 25 The Company pass the Argonath and camp at Parth Galen First Battle of the Fords of Isen; Theodred son of Theoden slain February 26 Breaking […]
