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Today in Middle-earth, November 3
| November 3, 2008 |
The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on November 3:
- Elvenking’s host leaves Mirkwood. Thorin learns news of Smaug’s death (1341)
- Battle of Bywater, and Passing of Saruman. End of the War of the Ring (1419)
November 3, 2941 (S.R. 1341)
1. Elvenking’s host leaves Mirkwood. Thorin learns news of Smaug’s death.
(from Karen Wynn Fonstad, The Atlas of Middle-earth)
[Balin] “They live many a year, and their memories are long, and they hand on their wisdom to their children. I knew many among the ravens of the rocks when I was a dwarf-lad. This very height was once named Ravenhill, because there was a wise and famous pair, old Carc and his wife…”
(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 244-245 The Hobbit)
November 3, 3019 (S.R. 1419)
1. Battle of Bywater, and Passing of Saruman. End of the War of the Ring.
(from the appendices)
“…a messenger from the Tookland rode in. He was in high spirits. ‘The Thain has raised all our country,’ he said, ‘and the news is going like fire all ways. The ruffians that were watching our land have fled off south, those that escaped alive. The Thain has gone after them, to hold off the big gang down that way…”
(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 363-371 RotK)
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