{"id":28455,"date":"2025-04-08T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/03\/08\/28455-today-in-middle-earth-march-8\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:10:42","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-april-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/04\/08\/28455-today-in-middle-earth-april-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, April 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Field-of-Cormallen-by-Tolman-Cotton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70584 no-lazyload\" style=\"width:423px;height:297px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Field of Cormallen by Tolman Cotton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on&nbsp;April 8<sup>th<\/sup>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><strong>The Ring-bearers are honoured on the Field of Cormallen (3019)<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><strong>The Ring-bearers revisit fair Ithilien <\/strong>(3019)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>[Join us on the Discussion Boards <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=1017729;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_expanded;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. The Ring-bearers are honoured on the Field of Cormallen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When Sam awoke, he found that he was lying on some soft bed&#8230;&nbsp; &#8230;All the air was full of a sweet mingled scent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He remembered that smell: the fragrance of Ithilien.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 282-288 RotK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. The Ring-bearers revisit fair Ithilien.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam&#8217;s mind until he felt bewildered.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 288-289 RotK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on&nbsp;April 8th:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":70584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[28,198,197,35,149,252],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-28455","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\/2012\/04\/Field-of-Cormallen-by-Tolman-Cotton.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7oX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28455","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=28455"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120372,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28455\/revisions\/120372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}