Thorin & Co. Arrive in Rivendell (June 20)

On their quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain as their ancestral home, a party of dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (and accompanied by hobbit Bilbo Baggins) stops for rest at Rivendell.

How to Commemorate: 

• Read in moonlight.
• Make a secret map.
• Have feast that totally ignores vegetables.

Works Cited

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Thorin & Co. Arrive in Rivendell (June 20)

One their quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain as their ancestral home, a party of dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (and accompanied by hobbit Bilbo Baggins) stops for rest at Rivendell.

How to Commemorate:

• Read in moonlight.
  Make a secret map.
• Have feast that totally ignores vegetables.

Works Cited

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Thrain sets out to retake Erebor

After Smaug evicted the dwarves from their home of Erebor, orcs later moved in and claimed the Lonely Mountain for their own. Thrain could not bear this, so he set out to retake Erebor on April 21st, leading the beginning of the war between orcs and dwarves.

How to Commemorate:

• Retake something of your own
• Visit a mountain
• Later, go missing.