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Year 3019
Shire counting year 1419
March 27 Bard II and Thorin III Stonehelm drive the enemy from Dale. Celeborn crosses Anduin; destruction of Dol Goldur begun.
April 06 Meeting of Celeborn and Thranduil.
April 08 The Ring-bearers are honoured on the field of Cormallen.
May 01
May 08 Eomer and Eowyn depart from Rohan with the sons of Elrond.
May 20 Elrond and Arwen come to Lorien.
May 27 The escort of Arwen leaves Lorien.
June 14 The sons of Elrond meet the escort and bring Arwen to Edoras.
June 16 They set out for Gondor.
June 25 King Elessar finds the sapling of the White Tree.
1 Lithe. Arwen comes to the City.
Mid-year's Day Wedding of Elessar and Arwen.
July 18 Eomer returns to Minas tirith.
July 19 The funeral escort of King Theoden sets out.
August 07 The escort comes to Edoras.
August 10 Funeral of King Theoden.
August 14 The guest take leave of King Eomer.
August 18 They come to Helm's Deep.
August 22 They come to Isengard; They take leave of the King of the West at sunset.
August 28 They overtake Saruman; Saruman turns towards the Shire.
September 06 They halt in sight of the Mountains of Moria.
September 13 Celeborn and Galadriel departs, the others set out for Rivendell.
September 21 They return to Rivendell.
September 22 The hundred and twenty-ninth birthday of Bilbo. Saruman comes to the Shire.
October 05 Gandalf and the Hobbits leave Rivendell.
October 06 They cross the Ford of Bruinen; Frode feels the first return of pain.
October 28 They reach Bree at nightfall.
October 30 They leave Bree. The 'Travelers' come to the Brandywine Bridge at dark.
November 01 They are arrsted at Frogmorton.
November 02 They come to Bywater and rouse the Shire-folk.
November 03 Battle of Bywater, and Passing of Saruman. End of the War of the Ring.
Year 3020
Shire counting year 1420 March 13 Frodo is taken ill (on the anniversery of his poisoning by Shelob).
April 06 The mallorn flowers in the Party Field.
May 01 Samwise marries Rose.
Mid-year's Day Frodo resigns office of mayor, and Will Whitfoot is restored.
September 22 Bilbo's hundred and thirtieth birthday.
October 06 Frodo is again ill.
Year 3021
Shire counting year 1421 March 13 Frodo is again ill.
March 25 Birth of Elanor the Fair, daughter of Samwise. On this day the September 21 Frodo and Samwise set out from Hobbiton.
September 22 They meet the Last Riding of the Keepers of the Rings in the Woody End.
September 29 The come to the Grey Havens, Frodo and Bilbo departs over Sea with the Three Keepers. The end of the Third Age.
October 06 Samwise returns to Bag End.
1422 With the beginning of this year the Fourth Age began in the count of years in the Shire; but the numbers of the years of the Shire Reckoning were continued.
1427 Will Whitfoot resigns. Samwise is elected Mayor of the Shire. Peregrin Took marries Diamond of Long Cleeve. King Elessar issues an edict that Men are not to enter the Shire, and makes it a Free Land under the protection of the Northern Sceptre.
1430 Faramir, son of Peregrin, born.
1431 Goldlocks, daughter of Samwise, born.
1432 Meriadoc, called the Magnificent, becomes Master of Buckland. Great gifts 1434 Peregrin becomes the Took and Thain. King Elessar makes the Thain, the Master, and the Mayor Counsellors of the North-kingdom. Master Samwise is 1436 King Elessar rides north, and dwells for a while by Lake Evendim. He comes 1441 Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the third time.
1442 Master Samwise and his wife and Elanor ride to Gondor and stay there for a year. Master Tolman Cotton acts as a deputy Mayor.
1448 Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the fourth time.
1451 Elenor the Fair marries Fastred of Greenholm on the Far Downs.
1452 The Westmarch, from the Far Downs to the Tower Hills Emyn Beraid is added to the Shire by the gift of the King. Many hobbits remove to it.
1454 Elfstan Fairbairn, son of Fastred and Elanor, is born.
1455 Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the fifth time. At his request the Thain makes Fastred Warden of Westmarch. Fastred and Elanor make their dwelling at Undertowers on the Tower Hills, where their descendants, the Fairbairns of the Towers, dwelt for many generations.
1462 Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the sixth time.
1463 Faramir Took marries Goldlocks, daughter of Samwise.
1469 Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the seventh and las time, being in 1476 1482 Death of Mistress Rose, wife of Master Samwise, on Mid-year's Day. On September 22 Master Samwise rides out from Bag End. He comes to the Tower 1484 In the spring of the year a message came from Rohan to Buckland that King Eomer wished to see Master Holdwine once again. Meriadoc was then old 102 but still hale. He took counsel with his friend the Thain,and soon after they handed over their goods and offices to their sons and rode away over the Sarn Ford, and they were not seen again in the Shire. It was heard after that Master Meriadoc came to Edoras and was with King Eomer before he died in that autumn. Then he and Thain Peregrin went to Gondor and passed what short years were left to them in that 1541 In this year on March 1st came at last the Passing of King Elessar. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great King. Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Anduin and so over Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring.
Fourth Age began in the reckoning of Gondor.
of the Fellowship of the Ring.
are sent to him by King Eomer and the Lady Eowyn of Ithilien.
elected Mayor for the second time.
to the Brandywine Bridge, and there greets his friends. He gives the Star of the Dunedain to Master Samwise, and Elenor is made a maid of honour to Queen Arwen.
at the end of his office, ninety-six years old.
Hills, and is last seen by Elanor, to whom he gives the Red Book afterwards kept by the Fairbairns. Among them the tradition is handed down from Elanor that Samwise passed the Towers, and went to the Grey Havens, and passed over Sea, last of the Ring-bearers.
realm, until they died and were laid in Rath Dinen among the great of Gondor.