Third Age 3020

All entries without a footnote come from Appendix B, the Third Age, "The Chief Days from the Fall of the Barad-dur to the end of the Third Age".

[edit] March

• 13 Frodo is taken ill (on the anniversary of his poisoning by Shelob).

[edit] April

• 6 The mallorn flowers in the Party Field.

[edit] In Spring

• Death of Lobelia Bracegirdle (Sackville-Baggins).^[1]

[edit] May

• 1 Samwise marries Rose.

[edit] Midyear's Day

• Frodo resigns office of mayor, and Will Whitfoot is restored.

[edit] Overlithe

This was a leap year in Shire-reckoning (S.R. 1420)

The merrymaking in that year is said to have been the greatest in memory or record, owing to the wonderful summer of that year.^[2]

[edit] September

• 22 Bilbo's hundred and thirtieth birthday.

[edit] October

• 6 Frodo is again ill.

[edit] During the Year

• Faramir weds Éowyn.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"
2. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D, "The Shire Calendar"
3. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Heirs of Elendil", p. 207