{"id":31155,"date":"2026-02-14T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31155"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:21:43","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-february-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2026\/02\/14\/31155-today-in-middle-earth-february-14-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, February 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" class=\"intro\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/02\/14\/31155-today-in-middle-earth-february-14-2\/mirror-of-galadriel\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53582\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-53582 no-lazyload\" title=\"Mirror of Galadriel -\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mirror-of-Galadriel--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on February 14<sup>th<\/sup>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mirror of Galadriel (1419)<\/li>\n<li>Gandalf returns to life, and lies in a trance (1419)<\/li>\n<li>[Join us on the Discussion Boards <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=1021407;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_expanded;\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 14, 3019 (S.R. 1419)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>1. The Mirror of Galadriel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;With water from the stream Galadriel filled the basin to the brim, and breathed on it, and when the water was still again she spoke. &#8216;Here is the Mirror of Galadriel,&#8217; she said. &#8216;I have brought you here so that you may look in it, if you will.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 468 FotR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>2. Gandalf returns to life, and lies in a trance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;&#8216;I was alone, forgotten, without escape upon the hard horn of the world. There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over, and each day was as long as a life-age of the earth.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 135 TT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on February 14th: The Mirror of Galadriel (1419) Gandalf returns to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":53582,"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":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,198,197,35,149,252],"tags":[570],"class_list":["post-31155","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\/2012\/02\/Mirror-of-Galadriel-.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-86v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31155","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=31155"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121537,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31155\/revisions\/121537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}