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Narsil reforged and renamed Andúril

Last Update: 05/08/08
Event Date: December 18, 3018
Age: 3rd Age - Ring War
Type: Artifacts

An event in the prelude to the Quest of the Ring; see that entry for an overview:[The] Heir of Isildur arose in the North, and he took the shards of the sword of Elendil, and in Imladris they were reforged; and he went then to war, a great captain of Men. The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power a...

Merry and Pippin captured in the Orc-raid at Parth Galen

Last Update: 05/05/08
Event Date: February 26, 3019
Age: 3rd Age - Ring War
Type: Military/Strategic

An event in the Breaking of the Fellowship and the Orc-raid at Parth Galen; see those entries for an overview:Slowly in Pippin's aching head memory pieced itself together and became separated from dream-shadows. Of course: he and Merry had run off into the woods. What had come over them?.... They ha...

Fellowship debates their route from Lórien

Last Update: 05/05/08
Event Date: February 15, 3019
Age: 3rd Age - Ring War
Type: General

The Company now... returned to their pavilion.... [This] was to be their last night in Lothlórien, and... they wished to take counsel together. For a long time they debated what they should do, and how it would be best to attempt the fulfilling of their purpose with the Ring: but they came to no ...

Celeborn gives elven-boats to the Fellowship

Last Update: 05/05/08
Event Date: February 15, 3019
Age: 3rd Age - Ring War
Type: General

That night the Company was again summoned to the chamber of Celeborn.... At length [he] spoke of their departure. 'Now is the time,' he said, 'when those who wish to continue the Quest must harden their hearts to leave this land. Those who no longer wish to go forward may remain here, for a while...

Faramir rejects temptation by the One Ring

Last Update: 05/05/08
Event Date: March 7, 3019
Age: 3rd Age - Ring War
Type: General

An event in the prelude to the Siege of Minas Tirith; see that entry for an overview:'[Mithrandir] got leave of Denethor... to look at the secrets of our treasury, and I learned a little of him, when he would teach.... Ever he would search and would question us above all else concerning the Great Ba...

Travellers delayed by theft of their ponies

Last Update: 05/04/08
Event Date: September 30, 3018
Age: 3rd Age - Ring War
Type: General

Mr. Butterbur hurried off to see that their ponies were got ready.... But very soon he came back in dismay. The ponies had vanished! The stable-doors had all been opened in the night, and they were gone: not only Merry's ponies, but every other horse and beast in the place. Frodo was crushed by t...

Elfwine becomes King of Rohan (estimated date)

Last Update: 05/04/08
Event Date: October 1, 0063
Age: 4th Age
Type: Political

Elfwine, son of Éomer, King of Rohan, and Lothíriel of Dol Amroth, becomes the 19th King of Rohan:2991-F.A. 63 (3084) Éomer Éadig.... In the last year of the Third Age he wedded Lothíriel, daughter of Imrahil. Their son Elfwine the Fair ruled after him. The Return of the King, LoTR Appendix A...

Éomer, King of Rohan, dies (estimated date)

Last Update: 05/04/08
Event Date: October 1, 0063
Age: 4th Age
Type: Genealogical

Éomer, King of Rohan, dies in Edoras at the age of 93:1484 In the spring of the year a message came from Rohan to Buckland that King Éomer wished to see Master Holdwine once again. Meriadoc was then old (102) but still hale. He took counsel with his friend the Thain, and soon after they... rode awa...

Arwen, Queen of Arnor and Gondor, dies in Lórien

Last Update: 05/03/08
Event Year: 0121
Age: 4th Age
Type: Genealogical

But Arwen went forth from the House, and the light of her eyes was quenched, and it seemed to her people that she had become cold and grey as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Then she said farewell to Eldarion, and to her daughters, and to all whom she had loved; and she went out from ...

Théoden's funeral held

Last Update: 05/03/08
Event Date: August 10, 3019
Age: 3rd Age - Ring War
Type: Cultural/Social

[After] three days the Men of the Mark prepared the funeral of Théoden; and he was laid in a house of stone with his arms and many other fair things that he had possessed, and over him was raised a great mound, covered with green turves of grass and of white evermind. And now there were eight mounds...

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