{"id":29949,"date":"2025-09-22T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29949"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:01:46","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-september-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/09\/22\/29949-today-in-middle-earth-september-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, September 22"},"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=29949&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\/09\/Baggins-Birthday.jpg\" alt=\"Baggins Birthday\" width=\"266\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on September 22:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">Birth of Bilbo in the Shire (1290)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">Bilbo and the barrels reach Lake-town just after sunset (S.R. 1341)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">Birth of Frodo in the Shire (1368)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">A long expected party!! (S.R. 1401)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">Bilbo and Frodo&#8217;s birthdays (S.R. 1418)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">The Black Riders reach Sarn Ford at evening (S.R. 1418)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">Gandalf overtakes Shadowfax (S.R. 1418)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">The hundred and twenty-ninth birthday of Bilbo and Frodo&#8217;s fifty-first birthday (S.R. 1419)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">Sharkey in the Shire (S.R. 1419)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">Bilbo&#8217;s hundred and thirtieth birthday. Frodo&#8217;s fifty-second birthday (S.R. 1420)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">They meet the Last Riding of the Keepers of the Rings in Woody End (S.R. 1421)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">Master Samwise rides out from Bag End (S.R. 1482)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\">\n<p><em>[Join the conversation on the Message Boards <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=1020038#1020038\">here<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 2890 (S.R. 1290)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. Birth of Bilbo in the Shire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(from the appendices-no text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took celebrate the birth of their only child, &#8220;Bilbo Baggins of Bag End.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 2941 (S.R. 1341)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. Bilbo and the barrels reach Lake-town just after sunset.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0&#8220;&#8230;a barrel was cut loose by Bilbo and pushed to the shore and opened. Groans came from inside\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(Tolkien, 1966 Ballantine, p. 186-187 TH)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 2968 (1368)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. Birth of Frodo in the Shire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(from the appendices-no text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck celebrate the birth of their only child, &#8220;Frodo Baggins of Buckland, the Shire.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 3001 (S.R. 1401)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. A long expected party!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;The sun got up, the clouds vanished, flags were unfurled and the fun began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Bilbo met the guests (and additions) at the new white gate in person. He gave away presents to all and sundry\u2014the latter were those who went out again by the back way and came in again by the gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 50-56 FotR)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 3018 (S.R. 1418)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. Bilbo and Frodo&#8217;s birthdays.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">&#8220;Thursday, his birthday morning, dawned as fair and clear as it had long ago for Bilbo&#8217;s great Party. Still Gandalf did not appear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 102 FotR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>2. The Black Riders reach Sarn Ford at evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(from the appendices-no text)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">A presence of old crept through the forest which the Ranger felt long before he heard the sound of galloping hoofs\u2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>3. Gandalf overtakes Shadowfax.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(from the appendices)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">&#8220;I took the best horse in his land, and I have never seen the like of him&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 343 FotR)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 3019 (S.R. 1419)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. The hundred and twenty-ninth birthday of Bilbo and Frodo&#8217;s fifty-first birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">&#8220;After the celebration of Bilbo&#8217;s birthday the four hobbits stayed in Rivendell for some days, and they sat much with their old friend\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 327 RotK)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>2. Sharkey in the Shire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(not from the appendices-determined from text)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">&#8220;&#8216;\u2026since Sharkey came it&#8217;s been plain ruination.'&#8221; [tells Farmer Cotton]<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 360-361 RotK)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 3020 (S.R. 1420)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. Bilbo&#8217;s hundred and thirtieth birthday. Frodo&#8217;s fifty-second birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(from the appendices-no text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">There was a quiet gathering of friends and family at Bag End.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 3021 (S.R. 1421)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. They meet the Last Riding of the Keepers of the Rings in Woody End.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">&#8220;They camped in the Green Hills, and on September the twenty-second they rode gently down into the beginning of the trees as afternoon was wearing away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 380 RotK)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>September 22, 3082 (S.R. 1482)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>1. Master Samwise rides out from Bag End.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><br \/>[at ninety-nine years of age] &#8220;On September 22 Master Samwise rides out from Bag End\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 472 RotK)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on September 22: Birth of Bilbo in the Shire (1290) Bilbo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":79385,"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":false,"_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":[28,198,197,7,35,148,149,252],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-29949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar","category-fans-creations","category-fans","category-hobbit-book","category-lotr-books","category-hobbit","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\/09\/Baggins-Birthday.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7N3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949","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=29949"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120888,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949\/revisions\/120888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}