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680 dated entries · 6 agesMaster timeline
Two kinds of point, ordered within their age: dates from the register — birth and departure count separately, on a timeline they are two different moments — and the 300 events of the Tale of Years, each in our own words with its source.
Still to come: the synchronised map of parallel strands. It needs each event tied to a place, which the event record does not yet carry.
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- —Angband
- —Aredhel
- —Darkening of Valinor
- —Doriath
- —Dwarves
- —Elves
- —Ents
- —Fëanor
- —Finarfin
- —Fingolfin
- —Finwë
- —Flight of the Noldor
- —Galadriel
- —Hiding of Valinor
- —Huan
- —Idril Celebrindal
- —Kinslaying at Alqualondë
- —Lúthien
- —Maedhros
- —Melian
- —Menegroth
- —Moria
- —Noldor
- —Palantír
- —The Silmarils
- —Tol Eressëa
- —Treebeard
- —Turgon
- —The Two Trees of Valinor
- —The Two Trees of Valinor
- F.A. c. 1Fëanor
- F.A. 455Fingolfin
- F.A. 472Fingon
- F.A. 472Tuor
- F.A. 495Gwindor
- F.A. 499Glaurung
- F.A. c. 506Curufin
- F.A. 510Maeglin
- F.A. 532Elrond
- F.A. 590Morgoth
- —Aredhel
- —Battle of Tumhalad
- —Beren
- —Carcharoth
- —Dagor Aglareb
- —Dagor Bragollach
- —Eärendil
- —Elwing
- —Fall of Gondolin
- —Finrod Felagund
- —Glamdring
- —Glorfindel
- —Gondolin
- —Gondolin
- —Húrin
- —Lúthien
- —Maedhros
- —Melian
- —Men
- —Menegroth
- —Morwen
- —Nargothrond
- —Narsil
- —The Nauglamír
- —Nirnaeth Arnoediad
- —Ring of Barahir
- —Ruin of Beleriand
- —Ruin of Doriath
- —Siege of Angband
- —Sting
- —Thingol
- —Túrin Turambar
- —Túrin Turambar
- —War of Wrath
- —Wars of Beleriand
- S.A. 1The havens on the Gulf of Lhûn are established, and with them the realm of Lindon.
- S.A. 32The Edain complete their voyage west and take possession of the island granted to them.
- S.A. 40Dwarves abandon their older settlements in the Blue Mountains and move to Moria, whose numbers rise sharply.
- S.A. 442Elros
- S.A. 442Elros, first king of Númenor and brother of Elrond, dies after a reign of four centuries.
- S.A. 500The first signs that Sauron is again active in Middle-earth.
- S.A. 548Silmariën is born in Númenor; from her line the lords of Andúnië and later Elendil descend.
- S.A. 600Númenórean ships are sighted off the coasts of Middle-earth for the first time.
- S.A. c. 750Eregion
- S.A. 750The Noldor found Eregion west of the Misty Mountains, near the western gate of Moria.
- S.A. c. 1000Barad-dûr
- S.A. c. 1000Mordor
- S.A. 1000Sauron, uneasy at the growing strength of Númenor, settles on Mordor as his stronghold and begins Barad-dûr.
- S.A. 1003Tar-Anárion
- S.A. 1075Tar-Ancalimë becomes the first woman to rule Númenor in her own right.
- S.A. 1174Tar-Súrion
- S.A. 1200Sauron seeks to win over the Eldar. Gil-galad will have no dealings with him; the smiths of Eregion listen. Númenor begins to build permanent harbours.
- S.A. 1320Tar-Telperiën
- S.A. 1404Tar-Anárion
- S.A. 1474Tar-Minastir
- S.A. c. 1500The Rings of Power
- S.A. 1500Under Sauron's tuition the Elven-smiths reach the summit of their craft and begin the Rings of Power.
- S.A. 1574Tar-Súrion
- S.A. c. 1590Narya
- S.A. c. 1590Nenya
- S.A. c. 1590The Three Rings
- S.A. c. 1590Vilya
- S.A. 1590The Three Rings are finished in Eregion — the only ones Sauron never touched.
- S.A. c. 1600The One Ring
- S.A. 1600Sauron forges the One Ring in the fire of Orodruin and completes Barad-dûr. Celebrimbor understands what has been done.
- S.A. 1634Tar-Ciryatan
- S.A. 1693War of the Elves and Sauron
- S.A. 1693War breaks out between the Elves and Sauron. The Three Rings are put out of reach.
- S.A. 1695Sauron's armies enter Eriador; Gil-galad sends Elrond to the aid of Eregion.
- S.A. 1697Celebrimbor
- S.A. 1697Eregion
- S.A. 1697Rivendell
- S.A. 1697Eregion is destroyed and Celebrimbor killed. Moria closes its gates. Elrond withdraws with the surviving Noldor and founds Imladris.
- S.A. 1699Sauron holds all Eriador.
- S.A. 1700Tar-Minastir sends a great fleet from Númenor to Lindon, and Sauron is beaten.
- S.A. 1701War of the Elves and Sauron
- S.A. 1701Sauron is expelled from Eriador, and the western lands rest for many generations.
- S.A. 1731Tar-Telperiën
- S.A. 1800Tar-Atanamir
- S.A. 1800From about now the Númenóreans begin to hold territory on the coasts, while Sauron widens his power eastward and the shadow grows.
- S.A. 1873Tar-Minastir
- S.A. 1986Tar-Ancalimon
- S.A. 2035Tar-Ciryatan
- S.A. 2136Tar-Telemmaitë
- S.A. 2221Tar-Atanamir
- S.A. 2251Tar-Atanamir takes the sceptre; the Númenóreans begin to divide into parties. Around this time the Nine appear, bound by their rings.
- S.A. 2280Umbar is turned into one of the strongest holds Númenor possesses.
- S.A. 2350Pelargir is founded and becomes the principal harbour of the Faithful.
- S.A. 2386Tar-Ancalimon
- S.A. 2406Tar-Alcarin
- S.A. 2516Tar-Calmacil
- S.A. 2526Tar-Telemmaitë
- S.A. 2618Tar-Ardamin
- S.A. 2637Tar-Vanimeldë
- S.A. 2709Ar-Adûnakhôr
- S.A. 2737Tar-Alcarin
- S.A. 2798Ar-Zimrathôn
- S.A. 2825Tar-Calmacil
- S.A. 2876Ar-Sakalthôr
- S.A. 2899Tar-Ardamin
- S.A. 2899Ar-Adûnakhôr takes the sceptre — the first king to do so under a name in Adûnaic.
- S.A. 2962Ar-Adûnakhôr
- S.A. 3033Ar-Zimrathôn
- S.A. 3102Ar-Sakalthôr
- S.A. 3118Ar-Pharazôn
- S.A. 3175Tar-Palantir turns back to the old ways, and Númenor falls into civil war.
- S.A. 3255Ar-Pharazôn seizes the sceptre.
- S.A. 3261Ar-Pharazôn sails with his host and comes ashore at Umbar.
- S.A. 3262Sauron is carried to Númenor as a captive — and over the next half-century turns the king and his people.
- S.A. 3310Ar-Pharazôn begins to build the Great Armament.
- S.A. 3319Ar-Pharazôn
- S.A. 3319Downfall of Númenor
- S.A. 3319Númenor
- S.A. 3319Tar-Míriel
- S.A. 3319Ar-Pharazôn attacks Valinor. Númenor is destroyed; Elendil and his sons get away.
- S.A. 3320Dúnedain
- S.A. 3320Gondor
- S.A. c. 3320Osgiliath
- S.A. 3320Arnor and Gondor are founded as the realms in exile, and the palantíri distributed. Sauron comes back to Mordor.
- S.A. 3429War of the Last Alliance
- S.A. 3429Gondor is attacked: Minas Ithil falls and the White Tree burns. While Anárion holds the enemy back, Isildur flees north by river to his father.
- S.A. 3430Elves and Men bind themselves together in the Last Alliance.
- S.A. 3431Gil-galad and Elendil lead their hosts east to Imladris.
- S.A. 3434Battle of Dagorlad
- S.A. 3434The allied host crosses the Misty Mountains, defeats Sauron at the Dagorlad, and lays siege to Barad-dûr.
- S.A. 3440Anárion
- S.A. 3440Anárion is killed before the walls of Barad-dûr.
- S.A. 3441Elendil
- S.A. 3441Gil-galad
- S.A. 3441Elendil and Gil-galad overthrow Sauron and die in doing so. Isildur takes the One Ring; Sauron's spirit departs and the Ringwraiths vanish into shadow. The Second Age ends.
- —Grey Havens
- —Lothlórien
- —Minas Morgul
- —Minas Tirith
- —Nimloth
- —Nimloth
- T.A. 2Isildur
- T.A. 2Isildur sets a sapling of the White Tree in Minas Anor and hands the southern realm to Meneldil. On his way north he and his sons are killed at the Gladden Fields.
- T.A. 3Ohtar carries the broken sword of Elendil to Imladris.
- T.A. 10Valandil, Isildur's surviving son, takes the crown of Arnor.
- T.A. 109Elrond marries Celebrían, the daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel.
- T.A. 130Elladan
- T.A. 130Elrohir
- T.A. 130Elrond's twin sons, Elladan and Elrohir, are born.
- T.A. 158Meneldil
- T.A. 238Cemendur
- T.A. 241Arwen
- T.A. 241Arwen is born, the last child of Elrond and Celebrían.
- T.A. 249Valandil
- T.A. 324Eärendil
- T.A. 339Eldacar
- T.A. 411Anardil
- T.A. 420Ostoher has Minas Anor rebuilt.
- T.A. 435Arantar
- T.A. 490Men out of the east attack Gondor for the first time.
- T.A. 492Ostoher
- T.A. 500Rómendacil I drives the eastern invaders back.
- T.A. 515Tarcil
- T.A. 541Rómendacil I
- T.A. 541Rómendacil falls in battle.
- T.A. 602Tarondor
- T.A. 652Valandur
- T.A. 667Turambar
- T.A. 748Atanatar I
- T.A. 777Elendur
- T.A. 830Siriondil
- T.A. 830The Ship-kings of Gondor begin with Falastur.
- T.A. 861Eärendur
- T.A. 861Eärendur dies, and Arnor breaks apart into three kingdoms.
- T.A. 913Tarannon Falastur
- T.A. 933Eärnil I seizes Umbar and makes it a stronghold of Gondor.
- T.A. 936Eärnil I
- T.A. 936Eärnil is lost at sea.
- T.A. 946Amlaith of Fornost
- T.A. c. 1000Gandalf
- T.A. c. 1000Istari
- T.A. c. 1000Radagast
- T.A. c. 1000Saruman
- T.A. 1015Ciryandil
- T.A. 1015Ciryandil dies while Umbar is under siege.
- T.A. 1029Beleg
- T.A. 1050Hyarmendacil subdues the Harad and Gondor stands at its greatest strength. About the same time a shadow settles on Greenwood, and people begin calling it Mirkwood.
- T.A. 1100The Wise learn that an evil power holds Dol Guldur; they take its master for a Ringwraith.
- T.A. 1110Mallor
- T.A. 1149Hyarmendacil I
- T.A. 1149Atanatar Alcarin begins his reign.
- T.A. 1150Fallohide hobbits cross into Eriador. The Stoors take the pass below Caradhras and settle either in the Angle or among the Dunlendings.
- T.A. 1191Celepharn
- T.A. 1226Atanatar II Alcarin
- T.A. 1272Celebrindor
- T.A. 1294Narmacil I
- T.A. 1300Evil grows again: Orcs multiply in the Misty Mountains and fall upon the Dwarves, and the Ringwraiths are seen once more, their chief coming north to found Angmar.
- T.A. 1304Calmacil
- T.A. 1349Malvegil
- T.A. 1356Argeleb I
- T.A. 1356Argeleb I is killed fighting Rhudaur. Around the same time the Stoors give up their land in the Angle, and some go back east into the wild.
- T.A. 1366Rómendacil II
- T.A. 1409Arveleg I
- T.A. 1409Weathertop
- T.A. 1409The Witch-king falls upon Arnor and kills Arveleg I. Fornost and the Barrow-downs hold out, but the watchtower on Weathertop is destroyed.
- T.A. 1432Valacar dies, and the quarrel over his successor breaks into civil war.
- T.A. 1437Osgiliath burns and one of the seeing-stones is lost with it. Eldacar escapes to Rhovanion; his son is murdered.
- T.A. 1447Castamir the Usurper
- T.A. 1447Eldacar comes back and overthrows the usurper Castamir at the crossings of Erui; Pelargir is besieged.
- T.A. 1448The defeated party escapes downriver and takes Umbar for itself.
- T.A. 1490Eldacar
- T.A. 1540Aldamir
- T.A. 1540Aldamir is killed in the fighting against the Harad and the corsairs.
- T.A. 1551The men of the south are beaten by Hyarmendacil II.
- T.A. 1589Araphor
- T.A. 1601The Shire
- T.A. 1601Argeleb II grants land beyond the Baranduin to hobbits leaving Bree, and the Shire is settled.
- T.A. 1621Hyarmendacil II
- T.A. 1630Stoors coming up out of Dunland join them.
- T.A. 1634Minardil
- T.A. 1634Corsairs plunder Pelargir and kill Minardil.
- T.A. 1636Telemnar
- T.A. 1636A great plague sweeps Gondor. Telemnar and his children die and the White Tree withers; the sickness travels on into the northern lands and empties them.
- T.A. 1640Osgiliath
- T.A. 1640Tarondor makes Minas Anor the royal seat and sets a new sapling there. Osgiliath begins to fall empty, and the watch on Mordor lapses.
- T.A. 1670Argeleb II
- T.A. 1743Arvegil
- T.A. 1798Tarondor
- T.A. 1810Telumehtar wins Umbar back and drives the corsairs out.
- T.A. 1813Arveleg II
- T.A. 1850Telumehtar Umbardacil
- T.A. 1851The Wainriders begin their attacks on Gondor.
- T.A. 1856Narmacil II
- T.A. 1856Gondor loses its eastern lands and Narmacil II is killed.
- T.A. 1891Araval
- T.A. 1899Calimehtar beats the Wainriders on the Dagorlad.
- T.A. 1900Calimehtar raises the White Tower at Minas Anor.
- T.A. 1936Calimehtar
- T.A. 1940The two realms take up contact again and make an alliance; Arvedui marries Fíriel, daughter of Ondoher.
- T.A. 1944Battle of the Camp
- T.A. 1944Ondoher
- T.A. 1944Ondoher falls in battle. Eärnil beats the enemy in southern Ithilien, defeats their camp in a second engagement and forces the survivors into the Dead Marshes.
- T.A. 1945Eärnil II is crowned.
- T.A. 1964Araphant
- T.A. 1974Arthedain is overrun and Fornost falls; the northern kingdom is at an end.
- T.A. 1975Arvedui
- T.A. 1975Arvedui drowns in the northern ice, and two of the seeing-stones go down with him. A fleet from Gondor reaches Lindon, and the Witch-king is beaten at Fornost.
- T.A. 1976Aranarth is the first to be called Chieftain instead of king, and what remains of Arnor's heirlooms goes into Elrond's keeping.
- T.A. 1977Frumgar
- T.A. 1977Frumgar leads the Éothéod northward.
- T.A. 1979Bucca of the Marish
- T.A. 1979Bucca of the Marish becomes the first Thain of the Shire.
- T.A. 1980The Witch-king goes to Mordor and gathers the Nine there. In Moria a Balrog is roused and kills Durin VI.
- T.A. 1981Náin I is killed and the Dwarves abandon Moria. Many of Lórien's Silvan Elves go south; Amroth and Nimrodel do not survive the journey.
- T.A. 1998Pelendur
- T.A. 1999Erebor
- T.A. 1999Thráin I reaches the Lonely Mountain and establishes a dwarf-realm in its halls.
- T.A. 2000The Nine come out of Mordor and lay siege to Minas Ithil.
- T.A. 2002Minas Morgul
- T.A. 2002Minas Ithil is taken and becomes Minas Morgul; its seeing-stone falls into enemy hands.
- T.A. 2029Vorondil the Hunter
- T.A. 2043Eärnil II
- T.A. 2043Eärnur takes the crown of Gondor, and the Witch-king challenges him.
- T.A. 2050Eärnur
- T.A. 2050The challenge comes a second time. Eärnur rides to Minas Morgul and is never heard of again; Mardil takes the rule as the first Ruling Steward.
- T.A. 2060Dol Guldur grows in strength, and the Wise begin to fear that Sauron is taking shape there.
- T.A. 2063Gandalf enters Dol Guldur; its master withdraws eastward and hides. The Watchful Peace begins and the Nine keep still.
- T.A. 2080Mardil Voronwë
- T.A. 2106Aranarth
- T.A. 2116Eradan
- T.A. 2148Herion
- T.A. 2177Arahael
- T.A. 2204Belegorn
- T.A. 2210Thorin I gives up the Lonely Mountain for the Grey Mountains, where most of Durin's Folk are now gathering.
- T.A. 2244Húrin I
- T.A. 2247Aranuir
- T.A. 2278Túrin I
- T.A. 2319Aravir
- T.A. 2327Aragorn I
- T.A. 2340Isumbras I
- T.A. 2340Isumbras I becomes Thain, the first of the Took line, and the Oldbucks take possession of Buckland.
- T.A. 2395Hador
- T.A. 2412Barahir
- T.A. 2435Dior
- T.A. 2455Araglas
- T.A. 2460The Watchful Peace ends when Sauron comes back to Dol Guldur, stronger than before.
- T.A. c. 2463White Council
- T.A. 2463The White Council is founded. About the same time Déagol finds the Ring in the river and is killed by Sméagol for it.
- T.A. 2470Sméagol withdraws into the caves under the Misty Mountains.
- T.A. 2475Gondor is attacked again; Osgiliath is destroyed for good and its bridge broken.
- T.A. 2477Denethor I
- T.A. 2480Orcs build hidden strongholds in the mountains to close every pass into Eriador, and Moria is settled with Sauron's creatures.
- T.A. 2485Eorl
- T.A. 2489Boromir
- T.A. 2509Celebrían is ambushed on her way to Lórien and wounded with poison.
- T.A. 2510Battle of the Field of Celebrant
- T.A. 2510Rohan
- T.A. 2510Celebrían leaves Middle-earth. Enemies overrun Calenardhon; Eorl the Young wins the day on the Field of Celebrant, and the Rohirrim take the land as their own.
- T.A. 2512Brego
- T.A. 2523Arahad I
- T.A. 2544Aldor
- T.A. 2545Eorl
- T.A. 2545Eorl falls fighting in the Wold.
- T.A. 2567Cirion
- T.A. 2569Edoras
- T.A. 2569Brego finishes the Golden Hall at Edoras.
- T.A. 2570Baldor
- T.A. 2570Brego
- T.A. 2570Fréa
- T.A. 2570Baldor passes the forbidden door and does not return. Around the same time dragons stir once more in the northern wastes and become a plague to the Dwarves.
- T.A. 2588Aragost
- T.A. 2589A dragon kills Dáin I.
- T.A. 2590Thrór goes back to the Lonely Mountain; his brother Grór settles in the Iron Hills.
- T.A. 2594Fréawine
- T.A. 2605Hallas
- T.A. 2619Goldwine
- T.A. 2628Húrin II
- T.A. 2644Déor
- T.A. 2645Aldor
- T.A. 2654Aravorn
- T.A. 2655Belecthor I
- T.A. 2659Fréa
- T.A. 2668Gram
- T.A. 2670Tobold begins to grow pipe-weed in the Southfarthing.
- T.A. 2680Fréawine
- T.A. 2683Isengrim II
- T.A. 2683Isengrim II becomes Thain and begins to dig the Great Smials.
- T.A. 2685Orodreth
- T.A. 2691Helm
- T.A. 2698Ecthelion I
- T.A. 2698Ecthelion I has the White Tower of Minas Tirith built anew.
- T.A. 2699Goldwine
- T.A. 2718Déor
- T.A. 2719Arahad II
- T.A. 2726Fréaláf
- T.A. 2740Orcs invade Eriador once more.
- T.A. 2741Gram
- T.A. 2743Egalmoth
- T.A. 2746Thorin Oakenshield
- T.A. 2747Bandobras Took beats an Orc-band in the Northfarthing.
- T.A. 2752Brytta
- T.A. 2758Rohan is attacked from two sides at once while corsair fleets fall on Gondor. Helm withdraws to the Hornburg; Wulf takes Edoras. The Long Winter follows and brings great suffering.
- T.A. 2759Helm
- T.A. 2759Helm dies. Fréaláf drives Wulf out and begins the second line of kings; Saruman settles in Isengard.
- T.A. 2763Balin
- T.A. 2763Beren
- T.A. 2767Dáin II Ironfoot
- T.A. 2770Sack of Erebor
- T.A. 2780Walda
- T.A. 2784Arassuil
- T.A. 2790Thrór is killed by an Orc in Moria, and the Dwarves gather for revenge. Gerontius, later called the Old Took, is born.
- T.A. 2793War of the Dwarves and Orcs
- T.A. 2793War breaks out between Dwarves and Orcs.
- T.A. 2798Fréaláf
- T.A. 2799Battle of Azanulbizar
- T.A. 2799The Dwarves win before the East-gate of Moria at Nanduhirion. Dáin Ironfoot returns to the Iron Hills; Thráin II and Thorin go west and settle in Eriador.
- T.A. 2800Orcs out of the north trouble Rohan for two generations; King Walda is among those they kill.
- T.A. 2804Folca
- T.A. 2811Beregond
- T.A. 2830Folcwine
- T.A. 2841Thráin II sets out for the Lonely Mountain and is hunted by Sauron's servants.
- T.A. 2842Brytta
- T.A. 2845Thráin is shut up in Dol Guldur, and the seventh and final Dwarf-ring is taken from him.
- T.A. 2848Arathorn I
- T.A. 2850Gandalf enters Dol Guldur a second time and learns for certain that its master is Sauron, who is collecting the Rings and hunting for news of the One.
- T.A. 2851Walda
- T.A. 2851The White Council debates an attack on Dol Guldur; Saruman argues it down and begins his own search near the Gladden Fields.
- T.A. 2852Belecthor II dies and the White Tree with him. No sapling can be found, so the withered trunk stays in the court.
- T.A. 2859Fíli
- T.A. 2864Folca
- T.A. 2864Kíli
- T.A. 2870Fengel
- T.A. 2872Belecthor II
- T.A. 2879Gimli
- T.A. 2882Thorondir
- T.A. 2885Urged on by Sauron's agents, the men of the south cross the Poros against Gondor; two sons of Folcwine die in Gondor's service.
- T.A. 2890Bilbo Baggins
- T.A. 2890Bilbo is born in the Shire.
- T.A. 2901Attacks out of Mordor drive nearly all the remaining people from Ithilien; the hidden refuge behind the waterfall is made.
- T.A. 2903Folcwine
- T.A. 2907Gilraen
- T.A. 2907Gilraen, who will be Aragorn's mother, is born.
- T.A. 2911The Fell Winter: the Brandywine and other rivers freeze solid, and white wolves come down out of the north into Eriador.
- T.A. 2912Argonui
- T.A. 2912Great floods lay waste Enedwaith and Minhiriath; Tharbad is ruined and abandoned.
- T.A. 2914Túrin II
- T.A. 2920The Old Took dies.
- T.A. 2929Arathorn marries Gilraen.
- T.A. 2930Arador
- T.A. 2930Denethor II
- T.A. 2930Trolls kill Arador. In Minas Tirith Denethor II is born to Ecthelion II.
- T.A. 2931Aragorn
- T.A. 2931Aragorn is born on the first of March.
- T.A. 2933Arathorn
- T.A. 2933Arathorn is killed. Gilraen brings the child to Imladris, where Elrond raises him as a foster-son under the name Estel and keeps his descent secret.
- T.A. 2939Saruman works out that Mordor is combing the river above the Gladden Fields, and therefore that Sauron knows how Isildur died — and keeps it from the Council.
- T.A. 2941Battle of Five Armies
- T.A. 2941Fíli
- T.A. 2941Kíli
- T.A. 2941Quest of Erebor
- T.A. 2941Smaug
- T.A. 2941Thorin Oakenshield
- T.A. 2941Thorin and Gandalf call on Bilbo; on the journey Bilbo meets Gollum and comes away with the Ring. The White Council acts at last against Dol Guldur, and Smaug dies at Esgaroth.
- T.A. 2942Bilbo comes home with the Ring, and Sauron returns quietly to Mordor.
- T.A. 2948Théoden
- T.A. 2948Théoden is born.
- T.A. 2949Gandalf and Balin visit Bilbo.
- T.A. 2950Finduilas of Dol Amroth is born.
- T.A. 2951Sauron declares himself openly, begins to raise Barad-dûr again and sends three of the Nine to hold Dol Guldur. Gollum turns his steps toward Mordor.
- T.A. 2953Fengel
- T.A. 2953Turgon
- T.A. 2953White Council
- T.A. 2953The White Council meets for the last time and argues over the Rings. Saruman claims the One went down Anduin to the Sea, then takes Isengard for himself and begins to fortify it.
- T.A. 2954Mount Doom takes fire once more, and the last people of Ithilien cross the river westward.
- T.A. 2956Aragorn and Gandalf meet, and their friendship begins.
- T.A. 2957Aragorn begins his long journeys; under the name Thorongil he serves Thengel of Rohan and Ecthelion II of Gondor without giving away who he is.
- T.A. 2968Frodo Baggins
- T.A. 2968Frodo is born.
- T.A. 2976Denethor marries Finduilas of Dol Amroth.
- T.A. 2977Bain succeeds his father as King of Dale.
- T.A. 2978Boromir
- T.A. 2978Boromir is born to Denethor.
- T.A. 2980Samwise Gamgee
- T.A. 2980Théoden
- T.A. 2980Aragorn comes to Lórien and meets Arwen again. He puts Barahir's ring on her hand, and on the hill of Cerin Amroth the two are betrothed.
- T.A. 2982Meriadoc Brandybuck
- T.A. 2983Faramir
- T.A. 2983Faramir is born to Denethor; Samwise is born in the Shire.
- T.A. 2984Ecthelion II
- T.A. 2984Ecthelion II dies and Denethor II becomes Steward.
- T.A. 2988Finduilas
- T.A. 2988Finduilas dies young.
- T.A. 2989Balin leaves the Lonely Mountain and goes into Moria.
- T.A. 2990Peregrin Took
- T.A. 2991Éomer is born in Rohan.
- T.A. 2994Balin
- T.A. 2994Balin is killed and the colony in Moria destroyed.
- T.A. 2995Éowyn
- T.A. 2995Éowyn, Éomer's sister, is born.
- T.A. 3000Saruman ventures to use the stone of Orthanc and is caught by Sauron, who holds the stone of Minas Ithil; from then on he betrays the Council.
- T.A. 3001At Bilbo's farewell feast Gandalf begins to suspect what the ring really is. The watch on the Shire is doubled, and the search for Gollum starts in earnest.
- T.A. 3002Bilbo takes up residence with Elrond in Rivendell. Gandalf calls on Frodo at intervals over the next years.
- T.A. 3007Gilraen
- T.A. 3007Brand succeeds as King in Dale. Gilraen dies.
- T.A. 3008Gandalf visits Frodo for the last time before the journey.
- T.A. 3009For eight years Gandalf and Aragorn hunt Gollum on and off, through the vales of Anduin, Mirkwood and Rhovanion.
- T.A. 3017Gollum is let go from Mordor. Aragorn takes him in the Dead Marshes and delivers him to Thranduil. In Minas Tirith Gandalf reads Isildur's account.
- T.A. c. 3018Andúril
- T.A. 3018Council of Elrond
- T.A. 3018War of the Ring
- T.A. 3018 · 12.04.Gandalf arrives at Hobbiton.
- T.A. 3018 · 20.06.Sauron strikes at Osgiliath. At about the same hour Thranduil's realm is attacked and Gollum gets away.
- T.A. 3018 · 04.07.Boromir rides out of Minas Tirith.
- T.A. 3018 · 10.07.Saruman holds Gandalf prisoner on the pinnacle of Orthanc.
- T.A. 3018 · 00.08.Gollum's trail goes cold. Hunted by Elves and by Mordor alike, he seems to have taken refuge in Moria about now.
- T.A. 3018 · 18.09.Gandalf gets away from Orthanc before daybreak. The Black Riders come over the Fords of Isen.
- T.A. 3018 · 19.09.Gandalf reaches Edoras in beggar's clothing and is turned away at the door.
- T.A. 3018 · 20.09.He is let in at last, and Théoden tells him to take a horse and be gone by morning.
- T.A. 3018 · 21.09.Gandalf finds Shadowfax, but the horse keeps his distance; he follows him far across the plains.
- T.A. 3018 · 22.09.At evening the Riders reach Sarn Ford and scatter the Rangers guarding it. Gandalf catches Shadowfax at last.
- T.A. 3018 · 23.09.Before dawn four of the Riders slip into the Shire; the rest chase the Rangers eastward and then double back to watch the Greenway. One reaches Hobbiton at nightfall. Frodo leaves Bag End that day, and Gandalf rides north on Shadowfax.
- T.A. 3018 · 24.09.Gandalf crosses the Isen.
- T.A. 3018 · 26.09.The hobbits pass through the Old Forest, and Frodo comes to Bombadil's house.
- T.A. 3018 · 27.09.Gandalf crosses the Greyflood. The hobbits spend a second night with Bombadil.
- T.A. 3018 · 28.09.A barrow-wight takes the hobbits. Gandalf reaches Sarn Ford.
- T.A. 3018 · 29.09.Frodo comes to Bree after dark. Gandalf calls on the Gaffer.
- T.A. 3018 · 30.09.In the small hours there are raids on the house at Crickhollow and on the Bree inn. Frodo leaves Bree; Gandalf finds the house empty and reaches Bree that night.
- T.A. 3018 · 00.10.Gandalf rides out of Bree.
- T.A. 3018 · 03.10.He is set upon by night on Weathertop.
- T.A. 3018 · 06.10.The camp below Weathertop is attacked after dark and Frodo takes his wound.
- T.A. 3018 · 09.10.Glorfindel rides out from Rivendell and drives the Riders from the bridge over the Hoarwell.
- T.A. 3018 · 09.10.Glorfindel rides out from Rivendell and drives the Riders from the bridge over the Hoarwell.
- T.A. 3018 · 13.10.Frodo crosses the bridge.
- T.A. 3018 · 18.10.Glorfindel comes upon Frodo at dusk. Gandalf reaches Rivendell.
- T.A. 3018 · 20.10.They win across the ford of the Bruinen.
- T.A. 3018 · 24.10.Frodo wakes from his wound. Boromir arrives in Rivendell that night.
- T.A. 3018 · 25.10.The Council of Elrond is held.
- T.A. 3018 · 25.12.The Company of the Ring sets out from Rivendell at dusk.
- T.A. 3019Barad-dûr
- T.A. 3019Battle of Bywater
- T.A. 3019Battle of Dale
- T.A. 3019Battle of the Fords of Isen
- T.A. 3019Battle of the Pelennor Fields
- T.A. 3019Boromir
- T.A. 3019Dáin II Ironfoot
- T.A. 3019Denethor II
- T.A. 3019Dol Guldur
- T.A. 3019Gollum
- T.A. 3019Gríma Wormtongue
- T.A. 3019Halbarad
- T.A. 3019The One Ring
- T.A. 3019Saruman
- T.A. 3019Sauron
- T.A. 3019Théoden
- T.A. 3019Théoden
- T.A. 3019War of the Ring
- T.A. 3019Witch-king of Angmar
- T.A. 3019 · 08.01.The Company reaches Hollin.
- T.A. 3019 · 08.01.Snow falls on Caradhras.
- T.A. 3019 · 13.01.Wolves attack before daybreak. At nightfall the Company stands before Moria's western door, and Gollum takes up their trail.
- T.A. 3019 · 14.01.They spend the night in the twenty-first hall.
- T.A. 3019 · 15.01.At the bridge of Khazad-dûm Gandalf falls. Late that night the survivors reach the Nimrodel.
- T.A. 3019 · 17.01.In the evening they come to Caras Galadhon.
- T.A. 3019 · 23.01.Gandalf follows the Balrog up to the summit of Zirak-zigil.
- T.A. 3019 · 25.01.He throws the Balrog down and dies; his body remains on the mountaintop.
- T.A. 3019 · 14.02.Frodo and Sam look into Galadriel's mirror. Far away Gandalf is sent back and lies for days without waking.
- T.A. 3019 · 16.02.The Company takes leave of Lórien; Gollum watches the departure from cover on the western bank.
- T.A. 3019 · 17.02.Gwaihir carries Gandalf to Lórien.
- T.A. 3019 · 23.02.The boats are attacked in the night near Sarn Gebir.
- T.A. 3019 · 25.02.The Company passes the Argonath and makes camp at Parth Galen. At the fords of Isen there is fighting, and Théodred is killed.
- T.A. 3019 · 26.02.The Fellowship breaks apart. Boromir dies, and his horn is heard in Minas Tirith. Merry and Pippin are carried off; Frodo and Sam cross to the eastern shore.
- T.A. 3019 · 27.02.Aragorn reaches the western cliff at sunrise. Around midnight Éomer rides out of the Eastfold against Théoden's orders to hunt the Orcs.
- T.A. 3019 · 28.02.Éomer catches the Orcs at the edge of Fangorn.
- T.A. 3019 · 29.02.Merry and Pippin get away and meet Treebeard. At sunrise the Riders destroy the Orc-band. Frodo comes down out of the hills and falls in with Gollum, while Faramir sights the funeral boat.
- T.A. 3019 · 30.02.The Entmoot begins. Éomer, riding back to Edoras, meets Aragorn.
- T.A. 3019 · 01.03.At dawn Frodo enters the Dead Marshes. The Entmoot goes on. Aragorn meets Gandalf, returned in white, and they ride for Edoras.
- T.A. 3019 · 02.03.Frodo comes clear of the Marshes. Gandalf reaches Edoras and frees Théoden of his torpor; the Riders turn west against Saruman.
- T.A. 3019 · 03.03.Théoden falls back on the Hornburg and the battle there begins. The Ents finish their work on Isengard.
- T.A. 3019 · 04.03.Théoden and Gandalf ride from the Hornburg towards Isengard. Frodo reaches the slag-heaps at the edge of Mordor's waste.
- T.A. 3019 · 05.03.At noon Théoden comes to Isengard and parleys with Saruman in Orthanc. That night a winged shadow crosses the camp below Dol Baran, and Gandalf rides off with Peregrin. Frodo hides within sight of the Black Gate.
- T.A. 3019 · 06.03.The Dúnedain overtake Aragorn before dawn. Théoden rides from the Hornburg to Harrowdale; Aragorn follows later.
- T.A. 3019 · 07.03.Faramir brings Frodo to Henneth Annûn. Aragorn reaches Dunharrow at nightfall.
- T.A. 3019 · 08.03.At daybreak Aragorn takes the road under the mountains and reaches Erech at midnight. Frodo leaves Henneth Annûn.
- T.A. 3019 · 09.03.Gandalf reaches Minas Tirith. Faramir leaves Henneth Annûn; Aragorn rides from Erech to Calembel. At dusk Frodo comes to the crossroads and sees darkness rise out of Mordor.
- T.A. 3019 · 10.03.The day comes without a dawn. Rohan musters and rides from Harrowdale; Gandalf saves Faramir before the walls. Aragorn crosses the Ringló.
- T.A. 3019 · 11.03.Gollum goes to Shelob but, finding Frodo asleep, comes close to turning back. Denethor sends Faramir to Osgiliath; Aragorn reaches Linhir and passes into Lebennin.
- T.A. 3019 · 12.03.Gollum brings Frodo into Shelob's tunnels. Faramir falls back on the forts of the causeway. Théoden camps below Minrimmon; Aragorn drives the enemy towards Pelargir.
- T.A. 3019 · 13.03.Orcs of Cirith Ungol take Frodo. The Pelennor is overrun and Faramir wounded. Aragorn reaches Pelargir and seizes the fleet; the Rohirrim enter Drúadan Forest.
- T.A. 3019 · 14.03.Samwise finds Frodo in the tower. The siege of Minas Tirith closes in; guided by the Wild Men, the Riders reach the Grey Wood.
- T.A. 3019 · 15.03.Before dawn the Witch-king breaks the gate; Denethor burns himself. The horns of Rohan sound at sunrise, and the battle of the Pelennor is fought. Aragorn arrives by ship. Far away Théoden and the Witch-king fall, and Frodo and Sam get out of the tower.
- T.A. 3019 · 16.03.The captains take counsel over what to do. From the Morgai Frodo looks across the camps towards the mountain.
- T.A. 3019 · 17.03.Dale is fought over; Brand and Dáin Ironfoot are killed, and many take refuge in Erebor under siege. Shagrat brings Frodo's cloak and mail to Barad-dûr.
- T.A. 3019 · 18.03.The host of the West marches out of Minas Tirith. Frodo comes within sight of the Isenmouthe, where a passing Orc-company sweeps him along.
- T.A. 3019 · 19.03.The host reaches the vale of Morgul. Frodo and Sam break away and turn onto the road towards Barad-dûr.
- T.A. 3019 · 22.03.Darkness falls without an evening. Frodo and Sam quit the road and strike south towards the mountain. Lórien is assailed a third time.
- T.A. 3019 · 23.03.The host leaves Ithilien behind. Aragorn lets those go who cannot face what lies ahead. Frodo and Sam throw away weapons and gear.
- T.A. 3019 · 24.03.Frodo and Sam make the last stretch to the foot of the mountain. The host camps in the waste before the Black Gate.
- T.A. 3019 · 25.03.The host is encircled on the slag-hills. Frodo and Sam reach the Sammath Naur, where Gollum takes the Ring and falls with it into the fire. Barad-dûr comes down and Sauron passes.
- T.A. 3019 · 25.03.With the tower down and Sauron gone, the weight lifts from everyone who had stood against him — while his servants are seized by despair.
- T.A. 3019 · 25.03.The north had its own war. Thranduil's realm was invaded and long fighting went on beneath the trees, with great burning; but in the end Thranduil held.
- T.A. 3019 · 25.03.While the great armies lay before Minas Tirith, Sauron's allies in the north fell at last upon the lands they had long threatened, and Dale and Erebor were beset.
- T.A. 3019 · 25.03.When word of the victories in the south arrived, the northern army lost heart, and the besieged came out and drove it off.
- T.A. 3019 · 27.03.Bard II and Thorin III Stonehelm clear the enemy out of Dale.
- T.A. 3019 · 28.03.Celeborn crosses the Anduin, and the pulling down of Dol Guldur begins.
- T.A. 3019 · 06.04.Celeborn and Thranduil meet.
- T.A. 3019 · 08.04.On the Field of Cormallen the host does honour to the two who carried the Ring.
- T.A. 3019 · 01.05.Elessar is crowned. On the same day Elrond and Arwen leave Rivendell.
- T.A. 3019 · 08.05.Éomer and Éowyn ride home to Rohan with Elrond's sons.
- T.A. 3019 · 20.05.Elrond and Arwen reach Lórien.
- T.A. 3019 · 27.05.Arwen's escort leaves Lórien.
- T.A. 3019 · 14.06.Elrond's sons ride out to the escort and conduct Arwen the rest of the way to Edoras.
- T.A. 3019 · 16.06.They ride on towards Gondor.
- T.A. 3019 · 25.06.Elessar comes upon the sapling of the White Tree on the mountainside.
- T.A. 3019 · 01.06.Arwen comes to the City on the first day of the Lithe.
- T.A. 3019Elessar and Arwen are married at midsummer.
- T.A. 3019 · 18.07.Éomer comes back to Minas Tirith.
- T.A. 3019 · 19.07.The funeral escort of Théoden sets out.
- T.A. 3019 · 07.08.The escort reaches Edoras.
- T.A. 3019 · 00.08.Théoden is laid in the mounds of his fathers.
- T.A. 3019 · 14.08.The guests take their leave of Éomer.
- T.A. 3019 · 18.08.They come to the Hornburg.
- T.A. 3019 · 22.08.They reach Isengard and part from the King of the West at sundown.
- T.A. 3019 · 28.08.They come upon Saruman, who turns his steps towards the Shire.
- T.A. 3019 · 06.09.They halt within sight of the mountains above Moria.
- T.A. 3019 · 13.09.Celeborn and Galadriel turn back; the rest ride on for Rivendell.
- T.A. 3019 · 21.09.They come to Rivendell.
- T.A. 3019 · 22.09.Bilbo turns a hundred and twenty-nine. Saruman arrives in the Shire.
- T.A. 3019 · 05.10.Gandalf and the hobbits leave Rivendell.
- T.A. 3019 · 06.10.They cross the ford of the Bruinen, and Frodo's old wound stirs for the first time.
- T.A. 3019 · 28.10.They reach Bree as night falls.
- T.A. 3019 · 30.10.They leave Bree and come to the Brandywine Bridge after dark.
- T.A. 3019 · 01.11.They are arrested at Frogmorton.
- T.A. 3019 · 02.11.At Bywater they rouse the people of the Shire.
- T.A. 3019 · 03.11.The Battle of Bywater is fought, and Saruman dies. The War of the Ring ends.
- T.A. 3020 · 13.03.Frodo falls ill, a year to the day after Shelob's sting.
- T.A. 3020 · 06.04.The mallorn in the Party Field comes into flower.
- T.A. 3020 · 01.05.Samwise marries Rose.
- T.A. 3020At midsummer Frodo lays down the office of mayor and Will Whitfoot takes it up again.
- T.A. 3020 · 22.09.Bilbo turns a hundred and thirty.
- T.A. 3020 · 06.10.Frodo is ill once more.
- T.A. 3021Galadriel
- T.A. 3021Gandalf
- T.A. 3021 · 13.03.Frodo is ill again.
- T.A. 3021 · 25.03.Elanor the Fair is born to Samwise. By Gondor's reckoning the Fourth Age begins on this day.
- T.A. 3021 · 21.09.Frodo and Samwise ride out from Hobbiton.
- T.A. 3021 · 22.09.In Woody End they come upon the Keepers of the Rings riding for the last time.
- T.A. 3021 · 29.09.They come to the Grey Havens, and Frodo and Bilbo take ship over the Sea. With them the Third Age ends.
- T.A. 3021 · 06.10.Samwise comes home to Bag End.
- —Bard
- —Éomer
- —Glóin
- —Horn of Gondor
- —The Red Book of Westmarch
- Fourth Age 120Aragorn
- Fourth Age c. 120Legolas
- Fourth Age 121Arwen
- undefined 1422 S.R.The Fourth Age begins as the Shire counts its years, though the old Shire numbering is kept.
- undefined 1427 S.R.Will Whitfoot steps down and Samwise takes over as Mayor. Peregrin marries Diamond of Long Cleeve. The King forbids Men to enter the Shire.
- undefined 1430 S.R.A son is born to Peregrin and named Faramir.
- undefined 1431 S.R.Goldilocks is born to Samwise.
- undefined 1432 S.R.Meriadoc succeeds as Master of Buckland; Éomer and Éowyn send him rich gifts from the south.
- undefined 1434 S.R.Peregrin becomes Thain. The King raises Thain, Master and Mayor to counsellors of the northern realm, and Samwise is chosen Mayor a second time.
- undefined 1436 S.R.The King travels north and stays a while by Lake Evendim; at the Brandywine Bridge he receives his friends and honours Samwise with the Star of the Dúnedain.
- undefined 1441 S.R.Samwise begins a third term as Mayor.
- undefined 1442 S.R.Samwise, his wife and Elanor spend a year in Gondor; Tolman Cotton stands in as Mayor.
- undefined 1448 S.R.Samwise begins a fourth term.
- undefined 1451 S.R.Elanor is married to Fastred, who comes from Greenholm in the west.
- undefined 1452 S.R.The King enlarges the Shire westward as far as the Tower Hills, and many hobbits move into the new land.
- undefined 1454 S.R.Elfstan Fairbairn is born to Fastred and Elanor.
- undefined 1455 S.R.Samwise begins a fifth term. On his advice Fastred is made warden of the new western land, and he and Elanor settle at Undertowers.
- undefined 1463 S.R.Faramir Took marries Goldilocks, daughter of Samwise.
- undefined 1469 S.R.Samwise begins his seventh and final term; he is ninety-six when it ends.
- undefined 1482 S.R.Rose dies at midsummer. That September Samwise leaves Bag End for the hills in the west, and the Shire does not see him again.
- undefined 1484 S.R.Word comes from Rohan that Éomer wishes to see Meriadoc once more. Though a hundred and two years old, he rides south with Peregrin, and neither returns.
- undefined 1541 S.R.King Elessar dies on the first of March. Meriadoc and Peregrin are laid to rest beside him in Gondor.
- —Dagor Dagorath
- —Meriadoc Brandybuck
- —Peregrin Took