In the year S.R. 1418
| October 25 | |
| (4 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waning Crescent |
In the early hours Boromir, who yesterday entered the valley of Rivendell itself after more than a hundred days of travel from his home in Minas Tirith, finally reaches the house of Elrond.
With Frodo safe in Rivendell and having regained consciousness yesterday, the Council of Elrond is now called, and decides to attempt the destruction of the Ring in the heat of the mountain in which it was forged.
Through the afternoon following the Council of Elrond, scouts begin leaving Rivendell to determine whether the Nine Riders still linger west of the Mountains. Aragorn leaves with the sons of Elrond, who will head southeast across the Misty Mountains and down the Silverlode while Aragorn himself goes West and hunts with his Rangers.
| October 24 | |
| (5 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waning Crescent |
Boromir, in the late evening of his hundred and eleventh day of travel, reaches Imladris, the valley of Rivendell, of which he knew only legend, and begins to search for the house of Elrond.
| October 20 | |
| (9 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waning Crescent |
Early in the morning Glorfindel and Strider wake the Hobbits and set out on a final march east along the Road toward the Fords of Bruinen. As they reach its floodplain, they are overtaken from behind by five mounted Nazgûl, and then four more emerge from ambush as the white horse of Glorfindel carries Frodo toward the Ford. They make it across the Ford; the Lord of the Nazgûl begins to cross after them; and then all Nine are swept away as Elrond and Gandalf release the flood they have been preparing, and Glorfindel and Strider attack from behind and panic the horses of those who remain on the west bank.
| October 19 | |
| (10 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waning Crescent |
After walking all night, Glorfindel and Strider halt at dawn and allow the Hobbits five hours of sleep. Through the day they accomplish three further long marches, covering almost twenty miles, and reach a point where the road bends right and turns into valley.
| October 18 | |
| (11 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waning Gibbous |
Strider and the Hobbits leave their camp on the ridge in the Troll-fells, enjoying the clear morning after more than two days of steady rain. Frodo is succumbing to the wound of the Morgul-knife he received twelve days ago; a mist occasionally obscures his sight as his perception of the lighted world begins to dim. Winding downhill to the south, back toward the Road, they discover the trolls — long since turned to stone — that Bilbo encountered on his own journey east seventy-seven years ago. Late in the evening they reach the Road, and meet the Elf-lord Glorfindel. After attending to Frodo's wound, Glorfindel leads them in a night march eastward along the road.
After a journey of fourteen days from Weathertop, Gandalf reaches the safety of Imladris. He assists Elrond in preparing a flood of the river Bruinen should the Riders attempt to cross the Ford.
| October 17 | |
| (12 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waning Gibbous |
The rain clears that has been soaking Strider and the Hobbits, and they are able to turn south again toward the Road and they camp atop a ridge. Frodo is becoming very weak, which is making progress through the fells very difficult.
| October 16 | |
| (13 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waning Gibbous |
The Elf-lord Glorfindel, who since crossing the Last Bridge five days ago has been searching for the Hobbits back west of the river Mitheithel, finds their trail which leads him back east across the Bridge and toward Rivendell. He sees their trail turn north into the Troll-fells, but travels straight east along the road hoping to encounter them when they return to it.
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In the year S.R. 1419
| October 29 | |
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 | Waxing Gibbous |
The Hobbits and Gandalf spend a second day and night at the Prancing Pony in Bree. They arrived late last night from Rivendell and shared with Barliman news of their travels, but tonight much of the town turns out to see the travellers of whose return many expressed so little hope when they departed in early October of last year.
| October 28 | |
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 | Waxing Gibbous |
After twenty-five days of travel from Rivendell, Gandalf and the Hobbits reach Bree at nightfall. The town has been the periodic victim of violence since the withdrawal of the Rangers to the war in the south early this year, and the Barliman the innkeeper is glad to see them. They share the news of what has happened in the South, and learn that the pony they bought from Bill Ferny eventually returned and is safely stabled at the inn.
| October 6 | |
| (23 days ago) →archive | |
| Waning Gibbous |
On their second day of travel from Rivendell, Gandalf and the Hobbits cross Ford of Bruinen. Frodo experiences the first of many periodic bouts with darkness and pain that he will experience over the coming years, on anniversaries of the woundings he received on his journey; it was one year ago today that he was attacked by the Nagzul upon Weathertop and received the Morgul-knife wound in his shoulder.
| October 5 | |
| (24 days ago) →archive | |
| Waning Gibbous |
After a visit of slightly less than two weeks, Gandalf and the Hobbits leave Rivendell to return to the Shire. While their journey east along the Road last year was on foot, they now ride west on stout ponies, and Gandalf upon Shadowfax.
| September 22 | |
| (37 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waxing Crescent |
Bilbo Baggins turns one hundred and twenty-nine, and his birthday is celebrated by Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin who have all returned just yesterday to Rivendell after leaving Rivendell with the Ring nine months ago.
The wizard Saruman reaches the Shire, having left his ruined fortress of Isengard more than a month ago. While for many years he deployed only spies into the Shire, he recently has been employing wealth and, finally, open violence in order to impose his own rule on the district. They have cut off access to the Tookland, since its Thain is opposing them and his Hobbits are shooting Men on sight; but the Tookland itself is alone in still remaining out of Saruman's power.
| September 21 | |
| (38 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waxing Crescent |
After eight final days of riding north, Gandalf and the Hobbits return to Rivendell accompanied by Elrond, his sons, and many Elves of his household. It has been more than four and a half months since Elrond and his advisors rode from Rivendell with Arwen, bringing her south to her wedding in Minas Tirith; at least seven months since the sons of Elrond departed Rivendell to ride south with the Dúnedain to fight alongside Aragorn; and only four days shy of nine months since the Hobbits and Gandalf left Rivendell on a cold night of late December bearing the Ring southward toward its destruction.
| September 13 | |
| (46 days ago) →archive | |
 | Waning Crescent |
After a week of rest in Eregion among the ruins of the ancient Elven city, the time comes for the Elves to part. Celeborn and Galadriel head east with their companions over the Redhorn pass toward their forest of Lórien on the other side of the Misty Mountains, while Elrond, the Elves of his household, and Gandalf and the Hobbits continue north along the west side of the mountains toward Rivendell and the House of Elrond which lie slightly more than a week's ride to the north. It took the Hobbits a full two weeks to cross the same distance on foot when they marched south from Rivendell with the Company of the Ring, more than nine months ago.