{"id":30974,"date":"2026-01-15T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30974"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:40:32","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-january-15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2026\/01\/15\/30974-today-in-middle-earth-january-15-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, January 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hide-if-no-js\" class=\"intro\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gandalf_confronts_balrog.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-110160 no-lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gandalf_confronts_balrog-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gandalf_confronts_balrog-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gandalf_confronts_balrog-214x160.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gandalf_confronts_balrog.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c2\"><strong><span class=\"c1\">Today in Middle-earth, January 15<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"c1\"><span class=\"c2\">The Bridge of Khazad-d\u00fbm, and the fall of Gandalf (1419)<\/span><strong><span class=\"c2\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c1\"><span class=\"c2\">The Company reaches Nimrodel late at night (1419)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/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%3D1021232=View+Flat+Mode#1021269:~:text=TIME%20%2D%20January%2015\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><strong>January 15, 3019 (S.R. 1419)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c1\"><strong><span class=\"c2\">1. The Bridge of Khazad-d\u00fbm, and the fall of Gandalf.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c1\"><strong><span class=\"c2\">(from the appendices)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c6\">&#8220;\u2026 there came a great noise: a rolling BOOM that seemed to come from depths far below, and to tremble in the stone at their feet. They sprang towards the door in alarm. DOOM, DOOM.<\/span><span class=\"c1\">..&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c1\"><span class=\"c2\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 428 FotR)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c1\"><strong><span class=\"c2\">2. The Company reaches Nimrodel late at night.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><strong><span class=\"c2\">(from the appendices)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c6\">&#8220;&#8216;Lothl\u00f3rien!&#8217; cried Legolas. &#8216;Lothl\u00f3rien! We have come to the eaves of the Golden Wood. Alas that it is winter&#8230;'&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\"><span class=\"c8\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 438 FotR)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Middle-earth, January 15 The Bridge of Khazad-d\u00fbm, and the fall of Gandalf (1419) The Company reaches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":110160,"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":[28,198,197,35,149,252],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-30974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar","category-fans-creations","category-fans","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\/2021\/01\/gandalf_confronts_balrog.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-83A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974","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=30974"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121445,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30974\/revisions\/121445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}