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Heraldry

Heraldic devices, emblems and flags in the legendarium.

Heraldry

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Glorfindel and Balrog

Eric Velhagen

Category:Images by Eric Velhagen

Eric Velhagen is a talented American fantasy artist.

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Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand.

Boromir's rhyme in The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Council of Elrond"

12 July

Today's date in the Shire Calendar: Mersday, 19 Afterlithe

T.A 1944JUL12

The Disaster of the Morannon, death of King Ondoher & both his sons

In Arda

Disaster of the Morannon

On Earth

1918 - J.R.R. Tolkien is readmitted to Brooklands Officers' Hospital, Kingston-upon-Hull by this date.
1940 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes Letter 38a.
1967 - J.R.R. Tolkien starts writing letter 295b.
1973 - J.R.R. Tolkien is awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Edinburgh.
1973 - Actor Jørn Benzon is born.
1979 - Mythcon 10 in San Jose, California.
1981 - The nineteenth episode of the 1981 radio series of The Lord of the Rings is aired on BBC Radio 4.
2002 - Przemyslaw Mroczkowski, scholar and friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, dies.
2005 - Der Berggeist is auctioned at Sotheby's.
2005 - Tolkien Thing VII in Hohensolms, Hohenahr, Germany.
2008 - Tolkien Thing X in Rieneck, Germany.
2013 - Mythcon 44 at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

In Arda

T.A. 1944:
- The Disaster of the Morannon.
- Death of Ondoher, King of Gondor, and his sons Artamir and Faramir.
T.A. 3018:
- Gandalf is held captive by Saruman on the pinnacle of Orthanc.
- Boromir travels towards Rivendell to ask for counsel.

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