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