{"id":30382,"date":"2025-10-25T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30382"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:56:48","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-october-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/10\/25\/30382-today-in-middle-earth-october-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, October 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong>The following event took place in Middle-earth on Oct<\/strong><strong>ober 2<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Council-of-Elrond.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-63881 no-lazyload\" title=\"Council of Elrond\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Council-of-Elrond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><strong>5:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Dwarves venture into the Mountain (1341)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Elvenking&#8217;s host leave Mirkwood for Erebor (1341)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Council of Elrond (1418)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Council of Hobbits&#8230; and a Wizard.<\/strong><\/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;guest=634429702\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>October 25, 2941 (S.R. 1341)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. The Dwarves venture into the Mountain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(determined from text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Now do be careful!&#8221; whispered the hobbit, &#8220;and as quiet as you can be!\u00a0 There may be no Smaug at the bottom, but then again there may be&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1966 Ballantine, p. 224-228 TH)<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 25, 2941 (S.R. 1341)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The Elvenking&#8217;s host leave Mirkwood for Erebor.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(determined from text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the Elvenking rode forth&#8230;\u00a0 &#8230;marching with many spearmen and bowmen&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1966 Ballantine, p. 224-228 TH)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>October 25, 3018 (S.R. 1418)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. Council of Elrond.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Suddenly as they were talking a single clear bell rang out.\u00a0 &#8216;That is the warning bell for the Council of Elrond,&#8217; cried Gandalf.\u00a0 &#8216;Come along now! Both you and Bilbo are wanted.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 314-354 FotR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Council of Hobbits&#8230; and a Wizard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Later that day the hobbits held a meeting of their own in Bilbo&#8217;s room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 356 FotR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event took place in Middle-earth on October 25: The Dwarves venture into the Mountain (1341) The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":63881,"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":[607,221,570],"class_list":["post-30382","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-council-of-elrond","tag-the-hobbit","tag-today-in-middle-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Council-of-Elrond.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7U2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382","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=30382"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121163,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382\/revisions\/121163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}