{"id":28499,"date":"2023-03-13T01:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T06:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/03\/13\/28499-today-in-middle-earth-march-13\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T01:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T06:48:04","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-march-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2023\/03\/13\/28499-today-in-middle-earth-march-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, March 13"},"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=28499&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\/2012\/03\/Sam-battles-Shelob.jpg\" alt=\"Sam battles Shelob\" width=\"212\" height=\"144\"><\/a><strong>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on March 13<sup>th<\/sup>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frodo captured by the Orcs of Cirith Ungol (3019)<\/li>\n<li>The Pelennor is overrun (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Faramir is wounded (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Aragorn reaches Pelargir and captures the fleet (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Th\u00e9oden in Druadan Forest (3019)<\/li>\n<li>Frodo is taken ill (3020)<\/li>\n<li>[Join us on the Discussion Boards <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=1001808;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_expanded;\"><em>here<\/em>]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 13, 3019<\/strong><strong> (S.R. 1419) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Frodo captured by the Orcs of Cirith Ungol.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sam had fallen to his knees by Frodo&#8217;s head, his senses r<\/p>\n<p>eeling in the foul stench&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 431-432 TT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The Pelennor is overrun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;&#8230;the Lord of Barad-d\u00fbr the most fell of all his captains is already master of your outer walls,&#8217; said Gandalf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 112-115 RotK)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Faramir is wounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even as the Nazg\u00fbl had swerved aside from the onset of the White Rider, there came flying a deadly dart&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 114 RotK)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Aragorn reaches Pelargir and captures the fleet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Legolas] &#8220;&#8216;But the Haradrim, being now driven to the brink, turned at bay, and they were fierce in despair; and they laughed when they looked on us&#8230;'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 186 RotK)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Th\u00e9oden in Druadan Forest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There seemed to be some understanding between Dernhelm and Elfhelm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 127 RotK)<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 13, 3020<\/strong><strong> (S.R. 1420)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Frodo is taken ill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sam stayed at first at the Cottons&#8217; with Frodo; but when the New Row was ready he went with the Gaffer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 376 RotK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on March 13th: Frodo captured by the Orcs of Cirith Ungol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":69863,"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-28499","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\/03\/Sam-battles-Shelob.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7pF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499","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=28499"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116248,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28499\/revisions\/116248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}