The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on March 1^st:

• Birth of Aragorn II (Elessar) (2931)
• Frodo begins the passage of the Dead Marshes at dawn (S.R. 1419)
• Entmoot continues (S.R. 1419)
• The Hunters find signs of Merry and Pippin (1419)
• Aragorn meets Gandalf the White (S.R. 1419)
• They set out for Edoras (S.R. 1419)
• Faramir leaves Minas Tirith on an errand to Ithilien (S.R. 1419)
• The passing of King Elessar (1541)

March 1, 2931

1. Birth of Aragorn II (Elessar)

(not from the appendices)

     “And it happened that when Arathorn and Gilraen had been married only one year… “

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 420 RotK)

March 1, 3019 (S.R. 1419)

1. Frodo begins the passage of the Dead Marshes at dawn.

(from the appendices)

     “At last Sam could bear it no longer.  ‘What’s all this, Gollum?’ he said in a whisper.  ‘These lights?  They’re all round us now.  Are we trapped?  Who are they?’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 296 TT)

2. Entmoot continues.

(from the appendices)

     “…they did not go far from [Quickbeam's] ‘house.’  Most of the time they sat silent under the shelter of the bank; for the wind was colder, and the clouds closer and greyer; there was little sunshine, and in the distance the voices of the Ents at the Moot still rose and fell….”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 111 TT)

3. The Hunters find signs of Merry and Pippin.

(not from the appendices)

     “‘This is good tidings,’ said Aragorn.  ‘Yet the marks are two days old. And it seems that at this point the hobbits left the water-side.’

     ‘Then what shall we do now?’ said Gimli.  ‘We cannot pursue them through the whole fastness of Fangorn. 

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 120 TT)

4. Aragorn meets Gandalf the White.   

 (from the appendices)

“‘…here we are—and nicely caught in the net,’ said Legolas.  ‘Look!’

 ‘Look at what?’ said Gimli.

‘There in the trees.’

 ‘Where?  I have not elf-eyes.’

 ‘Hush!  Speak more softly!  Look!’ said Legolas pointing.  ‘Down in the wood, back in the way that we have just come.  It is he.  Cannot you see him, passing from tree to tree?’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 122 TT)

5. They set out for Edoras.

(from the appendices)

   “‘…Come, Aragorn son of Arathorn!’ he said.  ‘Do not regret your choice in the valley of the Emyn Muil, nor call it a vain pursuit.  You chose amid doubts the path that seemed right: the choice was just, and it has been rewarded….’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 132 TT)

6. Faramir leaves Minas Tirith on an errand to Ithilien.

(from the appendices)

     “‘It is close on ten leagues hence to the east-shore of Anduin,’ said Mablung, ‘and we seldom come so far afield.  But we have a new errand on this journey: we come to ambush the Men of Harad.  Curse them!…’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 338 TT)

March 1, 1541

1. The passing of King Elessar

(not FROM the appendices—but IN the appendices)

     “‘Lady Undómiel,’ said Aragorn, ‘the hour is indeed hard, yet it was made even in that day when we met under the white birches in the garden of Elrond where none now walk.’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 428 RotK) 

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