Today in Middle-earth, March 23
| March 23, 2008 |
The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on March 23th:
- The Host passes out of Ithilien. (3019)
- Aragorn dismisses the faint-hearted. (3019)
- Frodo and Samwise cast away their arms and gear. (3019)
- In Minas Tirith, Éowyn and Faramir continue to recover from their wounds and would walk daily in the gardens of the Houses of the Healers which face east. (3019)
- Pippin remains with the grim Men of the West. (3019)
March 23, 3019 (S.R. 1419)
1. The Host passes out of Ithilien.
(from the appendices)
“…they came at last to the end of the living lands, and began to pass into the desolation that lay before the gates of the Pass of Cirith Gorgor…”
(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 199 RotK)
2. Aragorn dismisses the faint-hearted.
(from the appendices)
“…they could descry the marshes and the desert that stretched north and west to the Emyn Muil. So desolate were those places and so deep the horror that lay on them that some of the host were unmanned, and they could neither walk nor ride further north.”
(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 199 RotK)
3. Frodo and Samwise cast away their arms and gear.
(from the appendices)
“…Sam took out all the things in his pack. Somehow each of them had become dear to him, if only because he had borne them so far with so much toil….”
(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 264-266 RotK)
4. In Minas Tirith, Éowyn and Faramir continue to recover .
(not from the appendices-no text)
from their wounds and would walk daily in the gardens of the Houses of Healing, which faced the east.
5. Pippin remains with the grim Men of the West.
(not from the appendices—no text)
As the army moved through the desolate lands of Mordor, Pippin’s heavy heart wept as he looked around at the ruination…
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