B2MeM for March 2

From the Tale of Years:

March 2 Frodo comes to the end of the Marshes. Gandalf comes to Edoras and heals Théoden. The Rohirrim ride west against Saruman. Second Battle of Fords of Isen. Erkenbrand defeated. Entmoot ends in after-noon. The Ents march on Isengard and reach it at night.

Click on the cut to see some pictures of these events, done by the amazing artist Anke Eissmann.

( March 2, 3019 illustrated )

Unfortunately, my writing brain is asleep today, so I am falling back on other people's skill and talent!

Forcing a Path

At the risk of burying my earlier post of the day, here is another!

In light of my exercise today wrestling with wet, heavy snow and a woefully inadequate shovel, here is a wee gap-filler I wrote as a companion piece to one of my favorite parts of FotR -- the passage through the snow on Caradhras."  My inspiration comes from Boromir, of course, in the following comment:

"...happily your Caradhras has forgotten that you have Men with you.  And doughty Men too, if I may say it; though lesser men with spades might have served you better. Still, we have thrust a lane through the drift; and for that all here may be grateful who cannot run as light as Elves."

( Forcing a Path )

As for shoveling, I did what I could, and I'm going to let DH deal with the rest, since I can't seem to interest Boromir in dealing with it!