February 28, 2013 at 1:00 am by grammaboodawg  - 

The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on February [28] 29^th:

• Meriadoc and Pippin escape and meet Treebeard (S.R. 1419)
• The Rohirrim attack at sunrise and destroy the orcs (S.R. 1419)
• The Hunters continue their pursuit (S.R. 1419)
• Gollum is captured by Frodo and Sam (S.R. 1419)
• Frodo descends from the Emyn Muil and meets Gollum (S.R. 1419)
• Faramir sees the funeral boat of Boromir (S.R. 1419)
• Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King conquers the Academy Awards (2004)

February 28, 3019 (S.R. 1419)

The Fellowship is splintered and on the move. 

1. Meriadoc and Pippin escape and meet Treebeard.

(from the appendices)

      “‘We have watched too long,’ said Merry.  ‘There’s Uglúk!  I don’t want to meet him again.’  The hobbits turned and fled deep into the shadows of the wood….”

 

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 78 TT)

 

2. The Rohirrim attack at sunrise and destroy the orcs.

(from the appendices)

      “…Uglúk was overtaken and brought to bay at the very edge of Fangorn.”

 

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 78 TT)

 

3. The Hunters continue their pursuit.

(not from the appendices)

      “As before Legolas was first afoot, if indeed he had ever slept.  ‘Awake!  Awake!’ he cried.  ‘It is a red dawn.’”

 

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 36 TT)

 

4. Gollum is captured by Frodo and Sam.

(not from the appendices)

   “Sam looked and breathed in sharply through his teeth.  ‘Ssss!’ he said.  ‘That’s what it is.  It’s that Gollum!”

 

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 278 TT)

 

5. Frodo descends from the Emyn Muil and meets Gollum.

(from the appendices)

      “Sam stared at his master, who seemed to be speaking to some one who was not there.  Gollum lifted his head.”

 

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 281 TT)

 

6. Faramir sees the funeral boat of Boromir.

(from the appendices)

      “‘…that night all the world slept at the midnight hour.  Then I saw, glimmering grey, a small boat of a strange fashion with a high prow…’”

 

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 347 TT)

 

February 29, 2004

1. Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King conquers the Academy Awards…

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