{"id":30089,"date":"2025-10-06T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30089"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:36:30","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-october-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/10\/06\/30089-today-in-middle-earth-october-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, October 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" 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=30089&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\/10\/Weathertop-Nazgul-attacks-Frodo.jpg\" alt=\"Weathertop Nazgul attacks Frodo\" width=\"192\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><strong>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on October 6:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thorin requests supplies (1341)<\/li>\n<li>Gandalf heads for Rivendell after escaping Weathertop (1418)<\/li>\n<li>The camp under Weathertop attacked at night. Frodo is wounded (1418)<\/li>\n<li>They cross the Ford of Bruinen; Frodo feels the first return of pain (1419)<\/li>\n<li>Frodo is again ill (1420)<\/li>\n<li>Samwise returns to Bag End (1421)<\/li>\n<li>[join us on the Discussion Boards <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?forum=7;do=forum_view_expanded;\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>October 6, 2941 (S.R. 1341)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. Thorin requests supplies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from Karen Wynn Fonstad, <em>The Atlas of Middle-earth<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;At the end of a fortnight Thorin began to think of departure. While the enthusiasm still lasted in the town was the time to get help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 192-193 Hobbit)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<strong>October 6, 3018 (S.R. 1418)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. Gandalf heads for Rivendell after escaping Weathertop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;I hoped to draw some of them off, and yet reach Rivendell ahead of you and send out help&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 347 FotR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>2. The camp under Weathertop attacked at night. Frodo is wounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;&#8216;Well, here we are!&#8217; said Merry.\u00a0 &#8216;And very cheerless and uninviting it looks! There is no water and no shelter.And no sign of Gandalf&#8230;'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p.252-255 FotR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>October 6, 3019 (S.R. 1419)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. <b>Gandalf and the Hobbits leave Rivendell \u2013 They cross the Ford of Bruinen.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;When they came to the Ford of Bruinen, he had halted, and seemed loth to ride into the stream\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 331 RotK)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>October 6, 3020 (S.R. 1420)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. Frodo is again ill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;One evening Sam came into the study and found his master looking very strange.\u00a0 He was very pale and his eyes seemed to see things far away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p.377 RotK)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>October 6, 3021 (S.R. 1421)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. 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