The Breaking of the Fellowship

It's been the best part of a year since I started re-reading The Fellowship of the Ring, and so it seems bizarre that, as I finally reach The Breaking of the Fellowship, one month from today I'll have hurtled through The Two Towers and most of The Return of the King and the Ring will have been cast into the Cracks of Doom! (Spoilers!)

Here's where it gets a bit confusing - straight from the end of Fellowship and onto The Departure of Boromir and then the very beginning of The Riders of Rohan. We know that The Taming of Smeagol begins three days after Frodo and Sam leave the company (the 29th September by my reckoning), but I'm not sure where the beginning of The Uruk Hai takes place. I read the first half today, and will pick up with their escape, also on the 29th.

There are a few paragraphs more of Riders... to read tomorrow, then a large chunk of reading on the 29th February. On the subject of which...

... when I planned this readalong, I hadn't given any consideration to the fact that the Shire calendar was different to ours. (Each month contains 30 days.) Yet, serendipitously, 2024 just so happens to be a leap year, meaning that I can actually read the events of 29th February in Middle-earth ON the 29th February. (No such luck for the 30th... so I'll read Treebeard in its entirety on the 29th.