{"id":30638,"date":"2025-11-23T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30638"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:05:55","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-november-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/11\/23\/30638-today-in-middle-earth-november-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, November 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on November 23:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The Battle of Five Armies \u2013 2941 (1341)<\/li>\n<li>[Join us on the Discussion Boards <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_threaded;post=1020828;sb=post_latest_reply;so=DESC;guest=645155441\"><em>here<\/em>]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>November 23, 2941 (S.R. 1341)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a01. The Battle of Five Armies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(referencing Karen Wynn Fonstad, <em>The Atlas of <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Midd<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>le-earth<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>&#8220;Runners came in to report that a host of dwarves had appeared round the eastern spur of the Mountain and was now hastening to Dale.\u00a0 Dain had come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 263-270 The Hobbit)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on November 23: \u00a0The Battle of Five Armies \u2013 2941 (1341)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":65708,"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":true,"_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":[28,198,197,7,148,252],"tags":[1014,570],"class_list":["post-30638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar","category-fans-creations","category-fans","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit","category-day-in-middleearth","tag-the-battle-of-five-armies-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\/11\/Beorn-at-the-Battle-of-Five-Armies.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7Ya","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638","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=30638"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121233,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638\/revisions\/121233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}