Reading Group meeting 23/9/06
On this day.....
'Four Riders enter the Shire before dawn. The other pursue the Rangers eastward, and then return to watch the Greenway. A Black Rider comes to Hobbiton by nightfall. Frodo leaves Bag End. Gandalf having tamed Shadowfax rides from Rohan.'
Appendix B, The Tale of Years, The Great Years (3018)