Third Age 3020 (abbreviated to T.A. 3020) is the 3020th year of the Sun of the Third Age of Middle-earth. Third Age 3020 was also known as S.R. 1420 in Shire-reckoning.
Notable events in this year include:
March
April
- 6 - The mallorn flowers in the Party Field.[1]
In Spring
- Death of Lobelia Bracegirdle (Sackville-Baggins).[2]
May
Midyear's Day
- Frodo resigns office of mayor, and Will Whitfoot is restored.[1]
Overlithe
- This was a leap year in Shire-reckoning. The merrymaking in that year is said to have been the greatest in memory or record, owing to the wonderful summer of that year.[3]
September
October
During the Year
- This year was remembered as "The Great Year of Plenty" in the Shire.[1]
- Faramir weds Éowyn.[4]
- Frodo begins writing The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King, his account of the War of the Ring, in the Red Book.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Chief Days from the Fall of Barad-dûr to the End of the Third Age"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D, "The Shire Calendar"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VII. The Heirs of Elendil", p. 207