The Battle of the Hornburg at Helm's Deep begins at midnight. pic.twitter.com/3orDjTvwbv
— On This Day In LotR (@onthisdayinLotR) March 3, 2020
Susana Polo is serious about JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga. She's done the literary research, and has plotted a timeline of the events LoTR movie fans and those who've read the books are familiar with.
From what my research can tell, the Breaking of the Fellowship (roughly the end of The Fellowship of the Ring) happened on Feb. 26. Frodo destroyed the One Ring on March 25. Half of the entire story takes place between those two points.
Right around midnight between March 3 and March 4, the battle begins at Helm’s Deep. This is one of the story’s only complete timestamps (along with 10 a.m. on Oct. 24, the moment that Frodo wakes up in Rivendell).
A little less than a week later, on March 8, the Battle of the Pelennor Fields will (have) unfold(ed) in front of Minas Tirith, with the Oliphaunts and “I am no man!” and all that.
Meanwhile, as Helm’s Deep is besieged, Frodo and Sam have not even gotten to the part where Gollum talks to himself, which was why Peter Jackson et al. had to write a large plot detour into The Two Towers, with the side effect of throwing Faramir’s entire characterization under a bus so Frodo would have something to do. Adaptation!
Polo has a Twitter account that follows all those events on the calendar date they happened. It's going to get seriously exciting now that the battle of Helm's Deep has begun. -via Metafilter