{"id":30447,"date":"2025-11-03T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30447"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:20:55","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-november-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/11\/03\/30447-today-in-middle-earth-november-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, November 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" class=\"intro\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Battle-of-Bywater-Death-of-Sharkey1.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64348 no-lazyload\" title=\"Battle of Bywater - Death of Sharkey\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Battle-of-Bywater-Death-of-Sharkey1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on November 3,<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battle of Bywater, and Passing of Saruman. End of the War of the Ring (1419)<\/li>\n<li>[Join us on the Discussion Boards <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?do%3Dpost_view_flat%3Bsb%3Dpost_time%3Bso%3DDESC%3Bpost%3D1020305=View+Flat+Mode#1020471\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>.<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<strong>November 3, 3019 (S.R. 1419)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. Battle of Bywater, and Passing of Saruman. End of the War of the Ring.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;&#8230;a messenger from the Tookland rode in. He was in high spirits. &#8216;The Thain has raised all our country,&#8217; he said, &#8216;and the news is going like fire all ways.\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 363-371 RotK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on November 3, Battle of Bywater, and Passing of Saruman. End&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":64348,"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":[28,35,149,252],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-30447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar","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\/11\/Battle-of-Bywater-Death-of-Sharkey1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7V5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447","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=30447"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121201,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30447\/revisions\/121201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}