6They cross the Ford of Bruinen; Frodo feels the first return of pain. 

28They reach Bree at nightfall. 

30They leave Bree. The Travellers' come to the Brandywine Bridge at dark. 

November 1. They are arrested at Frogmorton. 

2They come to Bywater and rouse the Shire-folk. 

3Battle of Bywater, and Passing of Saruman. End of the War of the Ring. 

3020 S.R. 1420: The Great Year of Plenty 

March 13.Frodo is taken ill (on the anniversary of his poisoning by Shelob). 

April 6. The mallorn flowers in the Party Field. 

May 1.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 6.Frodo is again ill. 

3021 S.R. 1421 The Last of the Third Age

March 13.Frodo is again ill 

25Birth of Elanor the Fair, daughter of Samwise. On this day the Fourth Age began in the reckoning of Gondor. 

September 21. Frodo and Samwise set out from Hobbiton. 

22They meet the Last Riding of the Keepers of the Rings in Woody End. 

29They come to the Grey Havens. Frodo and Bilbo depart over Sea with the Three Keepers. The end of the Third Age. 

October 6.Samwise returns to Bag End.

Later Events Concerning The Members of the Fellowship of the Ring

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1422With the beginning of this year the Fourth Age began in the count of years in the Shire; but the numbers of the years of Shire Reckoning were continued.

1427Will 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 he makes it a Free Land under the protection of the Northern Sceptre.

1430Faramir, son of Peregrin, born.

1431Goldilocks, daughter of Samwise, born.

1432Meriadoc, called the Magnificent. becomes Master of Buckland. Great gifts are sent to him by King Eomer and the Lady Eowyn of Ithilien.

1434Peregrin becomes the Took and Thain. King Elessar makes the Thain, the Master. and the Mayor Counsellors of the North-kingdom. Master Samwise is elected Mayor for the second time.

1436King Elessar rides north. and dwells for a while by Lake Evendim. He comes to the Brandywine Bridge, and there greets his friends. He gives the Star of the Dunedain to Master Samwise, and Elanor is made a maid of honour to Queen Arwen.

1441Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the third time.

1442Master Samwise and his wife and Elanor ride to Gondor and stay there for a year. Master Tolman Cotton acts as deputy Mayor.

1448Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the fourth time.

1451Elanor the Fair marries Fastred of Greenholm on the Far Downs.

1452The Westmarch, from the Far Downs to the Tower Hill (Emyn Beraid), is added to the Shire by the gift of the King. Many hobbits remove to it.

1454Elfstan Fairbairn, son of Fastred and Elanor, is born.

1455Master 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.

1463Faramir Took marries Goldilocks. daughter of Samwise.

1469Master Samwise becomes Mayor for the seventh and last time, being in 1476, at the end of his office, ninety-six years old.

1482Death of Mistress Rose, wife of Master Samwise, on Mid-year's Day. On September 22 Master Sam-wise rides out from Bag End. He comes to the Tower 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.

1484In 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 Sam 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 realm, until they died and were laid in Rath Dinen among the great of Gondor.

1541In 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 the Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring.

Appendix C: Family Trees

The names given in these Trees are only a selection from many. Most of them are either guests at Bilbo's Farewell Party, or their direct ancestors. The guests at the Party are underlined. A few other names of persons concerned in the events recounted are also given. In addition some genealogical information is provided concerning Samwise the founder of the family of Gardner, later famous and influential. The figures after the names are those of birth (and death where that is recorded). All dates are given according to the Shire-reckoning, calculated from the crossing of the Brandywine by the brothers Marcho and Blanco in the Year 1 of the Shire (Third Age 1601).