March 15
Dates follow the Shire Reckoning, the hobbits’ own calendar, laid on our year so that each night falls on its day in the tale. Every Shire month has 30 days, so our 31sts have no Shire date, and a few days (Yule and Lithe) sit between the months. S.R. is the Shire year; add 1600 for the Third Age (S.R. 1418 is T.A. 3018), the reckoning used in the appendices.
Read tonight
- Book Five · Chapter 4 · part 6 of 6The Siege of Gondor
- Book Five · Chapter 5 · part 3 of 3The Ride of the Rohirrim
- Book Five · Chapter 6The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
- Book Five · Chapter 7The Pyre of Denethor
- Book Five · Chapter 8 · part 1 of 2The Houses of Healing
Further afield
Map of the quest
Map of the quest
Where everyone is
Also on this day
From the Tale of Years, Tolkien’s own timeline at the back of the book.