Did you know that Helm & # 39; s Deep War started at midnight on March 3? I did, because I chase the fun of hiking Lord of the Rings-themed Twitter account permitting the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's delicious casket on the calendar days they work. Yes, indeed.
My step master of the Rings-themed Twitter account is not only one of its kind, but it's mine, and it has taught me a lot – both about Middle-Earth history events, and how great the story is, one actually happening at a limited time on our calendar earth, we may meet many people in small ways.
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The only reason we can say precisely that the events of The Lord of the Rings took place is because John Ronald Reuel is right. Professor Tolkien was a perfectionist who also reviewed some part of his epic because the phases of the moon were wrong.
Five years ago, I was looking at Appendix B of The Return of the Lord ("The Tale of Year (Chronology of the Westlands)" – which comes before Appendix C: "Family Trees (Hobbits)" – also found that it contained a 3,000-plus time line. -The Lord of Rings proper, but… it wasn't clear enough for me.
I had questions. What night did Frodo and his vocals sleep under the Bilbo trolls? When did Pippin get rid of his Elven-brooch? How hard can it be to put all this into Google's calendar? Wouldn't it be kind of fun to study The Lord of the Rings to fill in the gaps? Can anyone follow a Twitter account letting them know when things happen?
I learned many things by re-reading Tolkien's writings and answered these questions. For example, everything in Lord of the Rings happens much faster than you think – except for Gandalf's battle with Balrog. That took 10 days.
From what my research can tell you, Fellowship Break (almost the end of Ring Assembly) took place on February 26. Frodo destroyed One Ring on March 25. Part of the whole story takes place between those two things.
At approximately midnight between March 3 and March 4, the battle begins at Helm & # 39; s Deep. This is one of the hallmarks of the full story (and 10am on Oct. 24, the moment Frodo wakes up in Rivendell).
Less than a week later, on March 8, the Battle of the Fields of Pelennor (will) appear (organized) in front of Minas Tirith, with the Oliphaunts and "I'm not a man!" and all that.
At the time, as Helm & # 39; s Deep was besieged, Frodo and Sam never got to the part where Gollum was talking alone, which is why Peter Jackson et al. I had to write a great piece of writing Two Towers, with the unfortunate result of throwing all of Faramir's character under the bus so that Frodo has something to do. Conversion!
Hobbits have a great calendar system in many ways
Here's one thing you should know about Tolkien's timetable: on the Shire calendar, every month there are 30 days. (This is really a Twitter account issue in February, when really important stuff like the start of Entmoot happened on February 30). "So what did the Hobbits do with their 5,24 days of jumping?" he asks. The answer is that – like everything else about Hobbits – they throw a party.
Hobbits celebrated two Yuledays in the new year and three midsummer days (or Lithedays) between the months of Forelithe (June) and Afterlithe (July). That is to say, the months of "Before the holidays" and "After the holidays," which makes sense. In the years of connection, the fourth day is being added to Lithe, a completely named holiday by Overlithe.
The Hobbits celebrated the Yuledays and the Lithedays with food – Old Took would host parties and invite Gandalf to do explosives – to sleep, and to do all the fuck-all. The days of Yuledays and Lithe are not a month, and are not counted (no Lithe 1, Lithe 2, etc.). And they have no days of the week assigned to them. They are the perfect number to ignore responsibilities, a deadline directly by doing whatever you want.
The freedom of appointment for the day of the week makes for a second acquisition of the Hobbit calendar: Every calendar day becomes the same day of the week every year. Bilbo and Frodo's birth on September 22 is Thursday, and lasts Thursday.
Unfortunately, One Ring was destroyed on Sunday.
These are the facts I have learned to dig deep into the chronology of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. But I agree: There are deep ways to keep a selected Twitter account for a Rings-themed account.
How people interact with the direct Lord of the Rings Twitter account
After re-reading The Lord of the Rings and taking many notes, doing more with the Google Calendar, I put together a collection of beautifully edited photos from Peter Jackson's Lord & # 39; s the Rings movie (because tweets always get more interaction when they have a good one yet in the $ 300 million blockbuster trilogy), and began looking at events leading up to the destruction of the Ring on the calendar days they worked.
Here are four of the worst – and yet most common – responses to account content, listed:
4. "This tweet is wrong, (X) actually happened," when X changed the made-to-books movies. It is forgiven.
3. "This tweet is incorrect, (X) actually happened," where X is actually incorrect. I'm sorry, who here uses the fully researched King of the Rings Twitter account? It it is me? Yes? Thank you.
2. "Hey, that's a screenplay (not a feature film), not (something that didn't appear in the movies)!" Good heavens, thank you, True Lady to Media, I'll get you a film with a character who has never appeared in films right away.
1. "This is not a picture Me I would choose. ”
Sometimes, when it's mid-March, and the work goes crazy, then I suddenly remember that I am and need to rewrite the Battle of Pelennor Fields in a series of twelve tweets that afternoon, wondering how long I'll be updating the account. Next year? A year after that? Will I notice if it becomes a true job? Or will I be seeing another October, in the middle of opening a TweetDeck to edit a tweet about the disadvantage of Barliman Butterbur, that I have been traveling for six months?
But every June – if I haven't done a Lord of the Rings tweet since May 8 – I'll feel the pain of not being there. I still enjoy the culture of it, setting up tweets a day instead of planning in advance. I love the subtlety of quote-tweets and answers as other people mark their days with the same subject.
Every year, I watch people cry when Boromir dies, I rejoice when Eowyn wipes his hat, and is shocked when Denethor bites the dust. They replied "Stupid of something!" when Pippin threw a stone at the well, and "Fly, you fools!" when Gandalf falls. When I look at how Frodo and Sam have made their way across the country to the final pages of Mount Doom, they encouraged encouragement, or talked about how their term was approx you finish, or just say, “Mood.”
The attraction of fairy tales is how they are separated from our daily experiences, but that difference – one who never believed they could be part of such a big deal – is one of the central themes of Tolkien & # 39; s Middle-Earth stories. There is something fitting about the way the author's attention to detail allows readers to maintain a connection between the beautiful events of his story and the events of their lives.
My ex-boyfriend of the Rings-themed Twitter account started as a way to get into one of my favorite stories, and came up with a way to immerse myself other students & # 39; link to some of my favorite stories. And that is what keeps me happy with the events of The Lord of Rings on the calendar days they started for so long.
