Silence falls over the host as a minstrel of Gondor steps forward. ‘I will sing to you of Frodo of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom.’ Sam laughs, then weeps: ‘O great glory and splendour! And all my wishes have come true!’ The minstrel sings. And their joy was like swords.
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Mar 25, 2026
Frodo enters the Sammath Naur. ‘I have come. But…I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!’ He puts on the Ring and vanishes.
Sauron’s forces suddenly waver. The Nazgûl turn and fly away south. Gandalf cries: ‘Stand, Men of the West! Stand and wait! This is the hour of doom.’
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Mar 15, 2026
As the Nazgûl Lord swings again, Meriadoc of the Shire stabs a Barrow-blade into his knee from behind. ‘Éowyn!’
She makes a final thrust with her sword just beneath the crown.
A scream: after four thousand years of service to Sauron, the Nazgûl Lord passes from Middle-earth.
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Mar 15, 2026
Éowyn drops her helmet. ‘No living man am I! Begone, if you be not deathless! I will smite you, if you touch him.’ The Nazgûl Lord spurs his mount upon her; she cleaves its neck. He rises to face her himself. His mace smashes her shield and breaks her arm. She falls to her knees.
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Mar 15, 2026
A black dart hits Snowmane, who rears and falls, crushing King Théoden. The Witch-king’s carrion-bird digs its claws into the horse’s corpse.
A sword rings as it is drawn: Dernhelm will defend the king’s body.
The Witch-king taunts him. ‘Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!’
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Mar 10, 2026
Faramir reports the Southron ambush to his father Denethor, then looks at Pippin. ‘This is not the first halfling that I have seen walking out of northern legends.’
He says that Frodo was heading for ‘Cirith Ungol’. Gandalf is suddenly afraid—has the Ring already been captured?
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Mar 01, 2026
After Gandalf and the three hunters have shared their stories, Aragorn stands to his feet. ‘You are our captain and our banner. The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him.’
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Feb 27, 2026
How might Frodo trust Gollum?
‘Sméagol will swear on the Precious.’
‘On the Precious? How dare you? Think! “One Ring to rule them all and in the Darkness bind them.” Would you commit your promise to that, Sméagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are!’
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Feb 18, 2026
The forests along each bank of the Anduin become sparse and then disappear as the Company float south in their Elven-boats. To the west they can now see the plains of Rohan. To the east lie brown and desolate lands.
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Feb 17, 2026
The great eagle Gwaihir finds Gandalf stranded but alive on the burned and broken summit of Zirak-zigil. He carries the wizard southeast to Lórien where he can recover.
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Feb 16, 2026
The Company embark upon the Anduin. They float south into lands still grey with late winter as the colours of Lórien recede into the distance. They hear Galadriel far behind, singing in the ancient Elven-tongue.
’Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
Yéni únótimë ve rámar aldaron!…’
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Feb 16, 2026
After a feast on the grass, Galadriel gives gifts to the Company.
Aragorn—a sheath for Andúril, and a green Elf-stone.
Boromir—a belt of gold.
Merry and Pippin—silver belts.
Legolas—a bow.
Sam—a box.
Frodo—a phial of light.
Gimli names a strand of her hair. He receives three.
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Feb 16, 2026
‘…O Lórien! Too long I have dwelt
Upon this Hither Shore
And in a fading crown have twined
The golden elanor.
But if of ships I now should sing,
What ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back
Across so wide a Sea?’
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Feb 16, 2026
A swan-boat approaches bearing Galadriel.
‘I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold
And leaves of gold there grew
Of wind I sang, a wind there came
And in the branches blew
Beyond the Sun beyond the Moon
The foam was on the Sea
And by the strand of Ilmarin
There grew a golden Tree…’
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Feb 16, 2026
Having loaded their three Elven boats and received instruction in their use, the Company set out on the water for the first time. They slowly paddle upstream on the Silverlode as practice.
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Feb 16, 2026
As the Company are packing, the Elves bring them not only lembas but also grey elven-cloaks—woven by the Lady and her maidens. They are the first garments of Lórien ever given to strangers.
The Company start walking the ten miles south to where their new boats are waiting.
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Feb 15, 2026
The Company are called before the Lady Galadriel and the Lord Celeborn. Will they now travel the west bank of Anduin to Minas Tirith, or the east bank toward Mordor? Seeing their doubt, Celeborn offers Elven-boats. The Company look more hopeful (except Sam) and offer thanks.
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Feb 15, 2026
Sam still thinks Galadriel should take the Ring. ‘You’d stop them digging up the gaffer and turning him adrift. You’d make some folk pay for their dirty work.’
‘I would. That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas!’
She leads them away from the garden.
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Feb 15, 2026
Galadriel laughs. ‘Gently are you revenged for my testing of your heart at our first meeting.’ Her ring blazes with light. ‘In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen.’
She drops her hand. ‘I pass the test. I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.’
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Feb 15, 2026
Sam looks in the Mirror: Frodo lying pale and still; trees being felled in the Shire.
Frodo sees a wizard in white; Bilbo pacing; Númenor; then a great Eye searching for him. He looks up and sees that Galadriel wears Nenya, the Ring of Adamant.
He offers her the Ruling Ring.
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Feb 15, 2026
Sam and Frodo see Galadriel walking tall and fair beneath the mallorn-trees. She leads them to a garden that’s open to the twilight sky, and pours water from a stream into a basin. ‘Here is the Mirror of Galadriel. I have brought you here so that you may look in it, if you will.’
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Feb 14, 2026
Nineteen days after destroying the Balrog, Gandalf returns to life. ‘Naked I lay upon the mountain-top…faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.’
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Jan 25, 2026
For two days and two nights fire and lightning have scorched the peak of Zirak-zigil. Now, Gandalf finally casts the Balrog from the peak. The mountainside collapses where its body strikes.
Gandalf himself passes away. His body lies without sheet or shroud upon the peak.
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Jan 23, 2026
For eight days the Balrog has climbed secret tunnels with Gandalf in pursuit. Finally they reach the Endless Stair of many thousand steps, which brings them to Durin’s Tower and a narrow ledge atop Zirak-zigil. The Balrog bursts again into flame. The Battle of the Peak begins.
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Jan 22, 2026
Frodo laments:
‘When evening in the Shire was grey
his footsteps on the Hill were heard
before the dawn he went away
on journey long without a word
…
He stood upon the bridge alone
and Fire and Shadow both defied
his staff was broken on the stone
in Khazad-dûm his wisdom died.’
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Jan 20, 2026
Over the past several days Legolas has been spending time wandering through Lórien and amongst its Elves—especially at night while the Company is asleep. Now he has started taking Gimli with him as he explores.
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Jan 17, 2026
Pippin: ‘What did you blush for, Sam? Anyone would have thought you had a guilty conscience.’
Sam: ‘I felt as if I hadn’t got nothing on. She seemed to be looking inside me and asking what I would do if she gave me the chance of flying back home—with a bit of garden of my own.’
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Events of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, tweeted at the date and time they occurred, using Oxford, England local time. If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you might find @ shire_reckoning_west more convenient, that tweets these same events but six hours later. # Hobbits # JRRTolkien # LordOfTheRings # LotR # MiddleEarth # ShireFolk # ShireReckoning # TheShire # Tolkien
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Jan 17, 2026
After the Lord Celeborn invites the Company to remain in Lórien and rest, they return to the ground to sleep, where the Elves have set up a pavilion. As the night deepens, they discuss their journey—and the long searching look that the Lady Galadriel gave each of them.
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