{"id":30306,"date":"2025-10-20T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30306"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:32:34","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-october-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/10\/20\/30306-today-in-middle-earth-october-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, October 20"},"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=30306&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\/10\/Flight-to-the-Ford-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Flight to the Ford\" width=\"266\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><strong>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on October 20:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bilbo and the Dwarves think of what to do next at the Hidden Door (1341)<\/li>\n<li>Escape across the Ford of Bruinen (1418)<\/li>\n<li>Gandalf and Elrond perceive the Black Riders at the Ford of Bruinen (1418)<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Frodo is brought to Rivendell (1418)<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Return of the King is published (1955)<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">[join us on the Discussion Boards<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=1020301;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_expanded;\">here<\/a><\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>October 20, 2941 (S.R. 1341)<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>1. Bilbo and the Dwarves think of what to do next at the Hidden Door.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(determined from text &#8211; referencing Karen Wynn Fonstad, <em>The Atlas of Middle-earth<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Bilbo found sitting on the doorstep lonesome and wearisome\u2014there was not a doorstep, of course&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 199 The Hobbit)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>October 20, 3018 (S.R. 1418)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. Escape across the Ford of Bruinen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;&#8216;Our peril will be greatest just ere we reach the river,&#8217; said Glorfindel; &#8216;for my heart warns me that the pursuit is now swift behind us, and other danger may be waiting by the Ford&#8230;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 383-385 FotR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>2. Gandalf and Elrond perceive the Black Riders at the Ford of Bruinen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(not from the appendices-no text &amp; text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;&#8216;The river of this valley is under his power, and it will rise in anger when he has great need to bar the Ford.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 296 FotR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>3. Frodo is brought to Rivendell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(not from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;&#8216;The Elves brought you from the Ford on the night of the twentieth, and that is where you lost count&#8230;.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 292 FotR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on October 20: Bilbo and the Dwarves think of what to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":80994,"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":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}},"categories":[28,198,197,7,35,148,149,252],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-30306","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\/2013\/10\/Flight-to-the-Ford.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7SO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306","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=30306"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121142,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions\/121142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}