• The time had come for planning (1418)
  • Release of  The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

 December 19, 3018 (S.R. 1418)

1. The time had come for planning.

(not from the appendices-determined from text)

   “Elrond summoned the hobbits to him.  He looked gravely at Frodo.  ‘The time has come,’ he said.  ‘If the Ring is to set out, it must go soon.'”

 (Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 360-362 FotR)

 December 19, 2001

1. Release of  The Fellowship of the Ring

(not from the appendices-but who cares!?)

   Little did they know what was about to be unleashed on the world…