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Events

March

• 13 — Frodo is again ill from his old wound inflicted by Shelob two years earlier.
• 25 — Sam's and Rosie's first daughter and eldest child Elanor is born. According to the New Reckoning of Gondor, the Fourth Age begins.

September

• 21 — Frodo and Sam both depart from Hobbiton to the Grey Havens.
• 22 — Frodo and Sam meet the Last Riding of the Keepers in Woody End and join them. Bilbo marks his 131^st birthday, becoming the longeviest Hobbit in history.
• 29 — Departure of the Ring-bearers: Gandalf, Galadriel, Elrond, Frodo, and Bilbo all leave Middle-earth and pass over the Great Sea to the Undying Lands. The Third Age ends.

October

• 6 — Sam returns to Bag End from the Grey Havens on his faithful pony Bill.

Within the year

• King Éomer weds Lothíriel, daughter of Imrahil, Prince of Dol Amroth.

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