{"id":28413,"date":"2026-02-26T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/02\/26\/28413-today-in-middle-earth-february-26\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:52:48","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-february-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2026\/02\/26\/28413-today-in-middle-earth-february-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, February 26"},"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=28413&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\/02\/Boromir-at-Parth-Galen.jpg\" alt=\"Boromir at Parth Galen\" width=\"184\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><strong>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on February 26th:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Death of Boromir; his horn is heard in Minas Tirith. (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Frodo&#8217;s ordeal on Amon Hen. (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Gandalf aids Frodo in his struggle on Amon Hen. (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Meriadoc and Peregrin captured. (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Frodo and Samwise enter the eastern Emyn Muil. (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Aragorn sets out in pursuit of the Orcs at evening. (3019)<\/li>\n<li>\u00c9omer hears of the descent of the Orc-band from the Emyn Muil. (3019)<\/li>\n<li>[Join us on the Discussion Boards <em><a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?do=forum_view&amp;forum=7\">here<\/a><\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 26, 3019 (S.R. 1419)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Death of Boromir; his horn is heard in Minas Tirith. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aragorn hesitated. He desired to go to the high seat himself&#8230;. &#8230;Even as he gazed his quick ears caught sounds in the woodlands below&#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 524 FotR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Frodo&#8217;s ordeal on Amon Hen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And suddenly he felt the Eye.\u00a0 There was an eye in the Dark Tower that did not sleep&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 519 FotR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Gandalf aids Frodo in his struggle on Amon Hen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sat in a high place, and I strove with the Dark Tower&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 126 TT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Meriadoc and Peregrin captured.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aragorn knelt beside him. Boromir opened his eyes and strove to speak. At last slow words came. &#8216;I tried to take the Ring from Frodo&#8230;'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 18 TT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Frodo and Samwise enter the eastern Emyn Muil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So Frodo and Sam set off on the last stage of the Quest together&#8230;. &#8230;shouldering their burdens, they set off&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 525 FotR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Aragorn sets out in pursuit of the Orcs at evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 26 TT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00c9omer hears of the descent of the Orc-band from the Emyn Muil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;&#8230;scouts warned me of the orc-host coming down out of the East Wall&#8230; and among them they reported that some bore the white badges of Saruman.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 48 TT)<\/p>\n<div id=\"__if72ru4sdfsdfrkjahiuyi_once\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"__if72ru4sdfsdfruh7fewui_once\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"__hggasdgjhsagd_once\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on February 26th: Death of Boromir; his horn is heard in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":69332,"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-28413","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\/02\/Boromir-at-Parth-Galen-e1614346375802.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7oh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413","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=28413"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121591,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413\/revisions\/121591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}