Attack at Sarn Gebir

THE DAY

February 23rd 3019 TA

The attack at Sarn Gebir is not to be confused with the more notable attack later on at Parth Galen.
This Sarn Gebir was ended rather abruptly by Legolas, but also offered the first glimpse of one of the Nazgul on their winged beasts. 

“’Elbereth Gilthoniel!’ sighed Legolas as he looked up. Even as he did so, a dark shape, like a cloud and yet not a cloud, for it moved far more swiftly, came out of the blackness in the South, and sped towards the Company, blotting out all light as it approached. Soon it appeared as a great winged creature, blacker than the pits in the night. Fierce voices rose up to greet it from across the water. Frodo felt a sudden chill running through him and clutching at his heart; there was a deadly cold, like the memory of an old wound, in his shoulder. He crouched down as if to hide.Suddenly the great bow of Lorien sang. Shrill wen the arrow from the elven-string. Frodo looked up. Almost above him the winged shape swerved. There was a harsh croaking scream, as it fell out of the air, vanishing down into the gloom of the eastern shore. The sky was clean again. There was a tumult of many voices far away, cursing and wailing in the darkness, and then silence. Neither shaft nor cry came again from the east that night.”

THE YEAR

3004

Appendix B, The Tale of Years 3004 “Gandalf visits Frodo in the Shire, and does so at intervals during the next four years.”