17 March
From Tolkien Gateway
Events which occurred on 17 March.
On Earth
- 2006 - Bob Papenbrook, who voiced Théoden and Gimli in the video game The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, dies.
- 2009 - The seventh book of The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, Leaves of Lórien, is released.
- 2010 - The Lord of the Rings: War in the North is announced for release in 2011.
In Arda
- T.A. 2510:
- T.A. 3019:
- Battle of Dale:
- King Brand and King Dain Ironfoot die.
- Many Dwarves and Men flee in the Erebor and are besieged.
- Frodo and Sam travel northward along the Morgai.
- Shagrat brings Frodo's cloak, mail shirt and sword to Barad-dûr, where he is slain.
- Battle of Dale: