The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on March 8^th:

• Aragorn takes the ‘Paths of the Dead’ at daybreak; he reaches Erech at midnight. (3019)
• Frodo leaves Henneth Annûn. (3019)
• Merry and the Rohirrim make their way to Dunharrow. (3019)
• Shadowfax flies across the fields of Gondor. (3019)

March 8, 3019 (S.R. 1419)

1. Aragorn takes the ‘Paths of the Dead’ at daybreak; he reaches Erech at midnight.

(from the appendices)

“[Aragorn] cried, turning back and speaking to the whispering darkness behind. ‘Keep your hoards and your secrets hidden in the Accursed Years! Speed only we ask. Let us pass, and then come! I summon you to the Stone of Erech!’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 70-74 RotK)

2. Frodo leaves Henneth Annûn.

(from the appendices)

“The hobbits’ packs were brought to them (a little heavier than they had been), and also two stout staves of polished wood, shod with iron, and with carven heads through which ran plaited leathern thongs.”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 384 RotK)

3. Merry and the Rohirrim make their way to Dunharrow.

(not from the appendices)

“Sometimes where the way was broader he had ridden at the king’s side, not noticing that many of the Riders smiled to see the two together: the hobbit on his little shaggy grey pony, and the Lord of Rohan on his great white horse.”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 77 RotK)

4. Shadowfax flies across the fields of Gondor.

(not from the appendices)

“Gandalf was speaking to the men that barred his way, and as he listened Pippin became aware that he himself was being discussed.”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 21 RotK)

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