Fell Winter — Third Age Event Type: Environment/Disease Age: 3rd
Age - The Stewards Dates: December 1, 2911 ~ March 1, 2912 The
long, cold winter in Eriador beginning in the year 2911 Third
Age: The Fell Winter. The Baranduin and other rivers are frozen.
White Wolves invade Eriador from the North. The Lord of the
Rings, Appendix B, The Tale of Years: The Third Age Except on
the high moors of the Northfarthing a heavy [snow] fall was rare
in the Shire, and was regarded as a pleasant event and a chance
for fun. No living hobbit (save Bilbo) could remember the Fell
Winter of 1311, when the white wolves invaded the Shire over the
frozen Brandywine. The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Book 2, Ch
3, The Ring Goes South The Brandybucks were blowing the Horn-
call of Buckland, that had not been sounded for a hundred years,
not since the white wolves came in the Fell Winter, when the
Brandywine was frozen over. The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR
Book 1, Ch 11, A Knife in the Dark Note that in Beleriand the
winter that began