{"id":32747,"date":"2025-07-19T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=32747"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:58:11","slug":"today-in-middle-earth-july-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2025\/07\/19\/32747-today-in-middle-earth-july-19-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Middle-earth, July 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" class=\"intro\"><a id=\"set-post-thumbnail\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Set featured image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-admin\/media-upload.php?post_id=32747&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 alignright no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Riddles-in-the-Dark.jpg\" alt=\"Riddles in the Dark\" width=\"252\" height=\"170\" \/> <\/a><strong>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on July 19th:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bilbo&#8217;s lost in the caves (1341)<\/li>\n<li>Riddles in the dark (1341)<\/li>\n<li>Bilbo finds the dwarves and the wizard (1341)<\/li>\n<li>The Company is trapped in the trees (1341)<\/li>\n<li>The funeral escort of King Th\u00e9oden sets out (1419)<\/li>\n<li>[Join us on the Discussion Boards <em><a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=1019223;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_expanded;\">here<\/a><\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>July 19, 2941 (S.R. 1341)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1. Bilbo&#8217;s lost in the caves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(from Karen Wynn Fonstad, <em>The Atlas of Middle-earth<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Suddenly without any warning he trotted splash into the water&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p.\u00a078\u00a0 Hobbit)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2. Riddles in the dark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(determined from text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 79-95 Hobbit)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3. Bilbo finds the dwarves and the wizard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(determined from text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;And here&#8217;s the burglar!&#8221; said Bilbo stepping down into the middle of them, and slipping off the Ring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 98-100 Hobbit)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>4. The Company is trapped in the trees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(determined from text)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;&#8221;Must we go any further?&#8221; asked Bilbo, when it was so dark that he could only just see Thorin&#8217;s beard wagging beside him&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 103-113\u00a0 Hobbit)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>July 19, 3019 (S.R. 1419)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1. The funeral escort of King Th\u00e9oden sets out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>(from the appendices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;At last the day of departure came, and a great and fair company made ready to ride north from the City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 113\u00a0 RotK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on July 19th: Bilbo&#8217;s lost in the caves (1341) Riddles in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":75765,"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":[570],"class_list":["post-32747","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-today-in-middle-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Riddles-in-the-Dark.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32747","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=32747"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120577,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32747\/revisions\/120577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}