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Tolkien spend more time creating Middle Earth with its languages, landscapes and people than writing the actual book. His never-ending fantasy brought us a world which can only be seen as real, and the feel of reality of the scenery gives the story its depth. On this page you�ll be able to find a map of Middle Earth together with the most important dates of its history and of course all information you need on Frodo and the Fellowship�s Quest. For more information please email us or take a look at our �credits� page.
WARNING : The History on this page is a mix of Tolkien�s vision and the information from the LOTR movie. This site contains spoilers of New Line Cinema�s forthcoming films �The Two Towers� and �The Return Of The King�. If you don�t want to know how the story continues, don�t read any further! When the following movies appear the information on this site might change due to the fact that the dates in the films and the dates in the book do not agree all the time.
A map of Middle Earth. The red line indicates Frodo�s journey from the Shire to Mount Doom.
There is not much to find on the First Era of Middle Earth. Therefore we won�t discuss this period in time and move on to the Second Era, the Era of the Great Rings.
Second Era
1000 Sauron starts building Barad-Dur
1500 the forging of the Rings starts
1590 the Rings are finished and get given to Men, Dwarves and Elves
1600 the One Ring gets forged by Sauron himself in the fires of Mount Doom
2251 the Nazgul appear for the first time after the Kings have accepted the Nine Rings of Power
3320 the foundation of Gondor
3430 the Last Alliance of Elves and Men is formed to battle Sauron�s evil forces
3440 Barad-Dur is besieged by the Alliance
3441 Sauron is defeated, Isildur takes the One Ring after refusing to destroy it
2 Isildur gets killed by orcs and the One Ring disappears
79 Legolas is born
241 Arwen Undomiel, daughter of Elrond and Celebrian, is born
1300 multiplication of orcs and the re-appearance of the Nazgul
1980 after digging too deep in the depths of Khazad-dum the Balrog appears and kills Durin the Sixth
2000 the Nazgul take Minas Ithil and call it Minas Morgul. It�s their new residence
2460 Deagol finds the One Ring but his brother Smeagol kills him and takes the One
2470 Smeagol, now know as the creature Gollum, disappears to the Misty Mountains
2770 Saruman settles in Isengard
2879 Gimli is born
2890 Bilbo Baggins is born
2931 Aragorn is born
2933 after the death of his father Arathorn, Aragorn gets adopted by Elrond. He gets the new name Estel
2941 Bilbo finds the One Ring in Gollum�s cave
2942 Theoden is born
2951 Sauron starts rebuilding Barad-Dur, Aragorn meets Arwen for the first time
2954 Mount Doom is active again and fires appear from its crater
2956 Aragorn meets Gandalf for the first time
2968 Frodo Baggins is born
2978 Boromir is born
2980 Samwise Gamgee is born, just like Faramir, brother of Boromir
2982 Meriadoc Brandybuck is born
2990 Peregrin Took is born
2994 Balin gets killed by orcs and the Mines of Moria are taken over by evil forces
3001 Bilbo�s eleventy-first birthday, his disappearance and Frodo gets given the One Ring
Autumn
Gandalf arrives back in Hobbiton, telling Frodo about the evil powers of the One Ring. The hobbit and his servant Sam leave to Bree, where Gandalf is waiting for them. In the meantime Gandalf decides to pay a visit to Saruman the White in Isengard and asks him for his opinion about the Ring. Saruman however has turned into Sauron�s counsellor and thinks he�s able to share in the power of the Dark Lord. He captures Gandalf and keeps him locked in Orthanc.
Frodo and Sam meet up with Merry and Pippin and they have a first encounter with the Nazgul. They are able to make it safely to the �Inn of the Prancing Pony� in Bree, hoping to meet Gandalf there. Instead of meeting the wizard there they meet a dark stranger with the name of Strider. Frodo makes a huge mistake to put the Ring on in the company of the visitors of the Inn and Strider decides to help the hobbits, knowing about the One and the dangerous mission since he�s a friend of Gandalf. He protects them from a nightly attack of the Nazgul.
Strider and the hobbits leave to the Elventown of Rivendell but decide to spend the night at Weathertop. There they get involved in an attack by the Nazgul and Frodo gets stabbed with by a Morgul blade. The badly injured Ringbearer gets saved by Arwen Undomiel, daughter of Lord Elrond. They make it to Rivendell just in time. As soon as Frodo�s on the ment he is reunited with his uncle Bilbo, who has come to stay with the Elves, and Gandalf, who tells the disturbing story about his capture in Orthanc. Strider confesses his true name, Aragorn, Isildur�s heir and rightful King of the throne of Gondor. Elrond in the meantime decides to organize a meeting between the leaders of the different nations of Middle Earth to come up with a solution for the Ring since Sauron knows the One is in Rivendell. There the �Fellowship of the Ring� is formed. The nine, including Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Aragorn, the Elven Prince Legolas, the Dwarf Gimli and the Man Boromir, are on a quest to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom.
Saruman gets told by Sauron to build an invincible army and he creates the Uruk-hai, a crossing between orcs and earthmen. In the meantime the Fellowship leave Rivendell to start their journey to Mordor. They try to climb the Caradhas but Saruman controls the mountain and they are forced to continue through the Mines of Moria. There it gets clear that all Dwarves have been killed by orcs and goblins and the Fellowship are being besieged. They make it to the Bridge of Khazad-dum and get confronted with an ancient,invincible creature : the Balrog. Gandalf is able to defeat the Balrog but falls down the Bridge too and dies. The Fellowship are forced to continue their way and find shelter from the orcs in the woods of Lorien, where they meet Galadriel, the Lady of Light. At night the Ringbearer takes a look in Galadriel�s mirror and sees the future. She gives Frodo the Light of Earendil, the Elves precious star, before they get given boats and follow the Great River�s stream. They rest at Amon Hen before crossing to the other side of the River. There Sauron�s power takes control over Boromir and he tried to take the Ring from Frodo. The Ringbearer is able to flee and decides that he should continue his Quest alone. The rest of the Fellowship get besieged by Saruman�s Uruk-hai army and Boromir gets killed. Merry and Pippin are captured by the creatures and being brought to Isengard. Sam catches up with Frodo and together they start on the last part of their journey. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli hunt the Uruk-hai to try and free the other two Halflings. Frodo and Sam meet the creature Gollum and capture him. Gollum promises to show them the way to Barad-dur. Merry and Pippin are able to flee from the Uruk-hai and meet the Ents. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli discover that
The Ents, Merry and Pippin march to Isengard and destroy it. Gandalf and King Theoden arrive at Isengard too and face Saruman. Pippin looks in Saruman�s palatir, the seeing stone, and Gandalf takes him to Minas Tirith. Merry joins the Men of Rohan in battle against the Dark Powers.
Frodo and Sam get captured by Faramir, brother of Boromir, and he finds out about the death of his brother and the Quest. He lets them go and they continue their way. Faramir leaves to Minas Tirith. Minas Tirith is besieged. Gollum finally betrays Frodo and Sam in the cave of the giant spider Shelob. Frodo is wounded but Sam thinks he�s dead and takes the one ring to continue the quest himself. From orcs he finds out that Frodo has not died and is kept prissoned in the tower of Cirith Ungol. Sam saves Frodo and they flee.
The battle of the Pellenor where Aragorn joins the Men of Rohan. King Theoden dies and Merry and Eowyn kill the Witch King, the leader of the Nazgul. Since Eowyn and Merry are hurt they are brought to the House of Healing. Merry and Pippin are reunited, so are Eowyn and Faramir.
They last part of Frodo and Sam�s Quest arrives. They make it to Mount Doom but Frodo refuses to cast the Ring into the Fires. Gollum appears and bites Frodo�s finger with the Ring off. He falls in the Fires and the Quest is finished. Sauron is defeated. The Fellowship is reunited in Gondor.
May 1 3019 Crowning of Aragorn, the new King, who now carries the name of Elessar.
Mid Year�s Day 3019 Elessar and Arwen Undomiel get married.
September 6 3019 Saruman comes to the Shire.
October 30 3019 The hobbits and Gandalf arrive back in the Shire.
November 3 3019 Saruman is defeated. The end of the War of the Ring.
March 13 3020 Frodo is ill (the day of Shelob�s sting)
May 1 3020 Sam marries Rosie Cotton
October 6 3020 Frodo is ill again (the Morgul Blade)
March 25 3021 Elanor, daughter of Sam and Rosie, is born
September 29 3021 Frodo joins the Elves and they leave from the Grey Havens to Valinor, the Blessed Realm
Samwise gets chosen to Hobbiton�s Mayor for a total of 7 times. He and Rosie raise the impressive number of 13 children together until on the death of Rosie in 1482. Sam leaves to the Grey Havens to join Frodo in Valinor and reunited with the other Ringbearers.
Pippin marries Diamond of Long Cleeve in 1427. They get a son named Faramir Took and Peregrin becomes the Took and Thain. Merry becomes Master of Buckland in the year 1432 and he lives a happy life with Estella Bolger. In the year of 1484 the two friends decide to leave the Shire and move to Gondor where they lived many years before finally dying peacefully.
Legolas and Gimli shared a deep bond that had never been seen before between Dwarves and Elves. In the Spring of 1541 Legolas built a ship and together with Gimli sailed the Sea to the Blessed Lands of Valinor. Gimli was the only Dwarf to ever see the Realm.
