{"id":28060,"date":"2025-12-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/12\/25\/28060-today-in-middle-earth-december-25\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:37:47","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-december-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/12\/25\/28060-today-in-middle-earth-december-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, December 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a id=\"set-post-thumbnail\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Set featured image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-admin\/media-upload.php?post_id=28060&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 alignright no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The-Fellowship-leaves-Rivendell.jpg\" alt=\"The Fellowship leaves Rivendell\" width=\"246\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on December 25th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Fellowship of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk (1418 )<\/li>\n<li>[Join us on the Discussion Boards <em><a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_threaded;post=1021170;sb=post_latest_reply;so=DESC;\">here<\/a><\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 25, 3018 (S.R. 1418)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The Company [Fellowship] of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Elrond counselled them to journey under the cover of night as often as they could, until they were far from Rivendell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p.365 FotR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on December 25th: The Fellowship of the Ring leaves Rivendell at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":85549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,198,197,35,149,252],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-28060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar","category-fans-creations","category-fans","category-lotr-books","category-lotr","category-day-in-middleearth","tag-today-in-middle-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/The-Fellowship-leaves-Rivendell.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7iA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28060"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121382,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060\/revisions\/121382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}