16 January

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Events that occurred on 16 January.

[edit] On Earth

• 1937 - Artist Klaus Ensikat is born.
• 1938 - The Observer newspaper publishes a letter asking about the The Hobbit's links to Beowulf, as well as the origins of Tolkien's Hobbits.
• 1965 - The fifteenth and last episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.
• 2005 - The final day of the first "The One Ring Celebration".
• 2020 - Christopher Tolkien dies.

[edit] In Arda

• T.A. 3019:
  • Frodo wakes and hears Orcs moving past the flet on which he is sleeping, along with Gollum climbing the trunk of the tree.
  • The Fellowship of the Ring is led through Lórien.
  • Last quarter of the Moon.^[1]

[edit] Notes

The text mentions that Frodo sees the "sickle Moon". According to astronomy, this moon should really be exactly half-full in 3019, rather than sickle, eight days after the full moon.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. xlix
2. ↑ http://shire-reckoning.com/moon.html