The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on April 12^th:

•  Gandalf reaches Hobbiton (3018)

April 12, 3018 (S.R. 1418) The Great Years

1. Gandalf reaches Hobbiton.  

(from the appendices)

     “…after a late breakfast, the wizard was sitting with Frodo by the open window of the study.  A bright fire was on the hearth, but the sun was warm…

     Gandalf was thinking of a Spring, nearly eighty years before, when Bilbo had run out of Bag End without a handkerchief….”

 (Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 78-80 FotR)

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