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Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt
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White Poppy against a blue background

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

At dawn, Théoden and the riders in camp with him rise, quickly pack, and begin a second day of riding at speed toward the Fords of Isen. They hope to reach the Fords by late this evening.

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"Behold Your Work!", a lithographic print by Gisbert Combaz, 1916.

Is 38,14
Sicut pullus hirúndinis, sic mussitábo,
meditábor ut colúmba;
attenuáti sunt óculi mei
suspiciéntes in excélsum.

Like a swallow I utter shrill cries;
I moan like a dove.
My eyes grow weak, gazing heaven-ward:
O Lord, I am in straits; be my surety!

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The Second Battle of the Fords of Isen ends: Grimbold and his men are forced to abandon the Fords, leaving Rohan open to invasion. He himself is surrounded—but forms a shield-wall, breaks out thanks to a few of his men on horseback, and starts retreating southward in the dark.

Let the prisoners' sighing come before you;
with your great power free those doomed to death.
Then we, your people and the sheep of your pasture,
will give thanks to you forever;
through all generations we will declare your praise.

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In the darkness, the Ents and Huorns reach the edge of Fangorn Forest and crest the ridge that overlooks the ring of Isengard. They begin to quietly fill the valley all around Isengard’s ring of stone.

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The vanguard of Saruman’s army reaches the Fords of Isen. Using torch-light, they resume the attack on Grimbold and his men where they hold the east bank.

Late at night Elfhelm and his cavalry, guarding the Isen’s east bank to the north of where Grimbold holds the Fords, are attacked in the dark by wolf-riders. They are forced to retreat eastward away from the Isen.

Treebeard has moved slowly to within view of Isengard’s gates—still carrying Merry and Pippin—when suddenly horns blare and the gates open. Companies of Orcs and wolves and men begin marching south to join the assault on Rohan. It will be a hour before Isengard is finally empty.

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Now, in the small hours after midnight, Isengard lies quiet and empty. While some of the wild Huorn follow the army south, the rest of the Ents and Huorn move forward and attack. Treebeard sets Merry and Pippin down, and soon is breaking the ring of Isengard to rubble.

Joke glass in the shape of a boot, c. 1600

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Tureen With Cover and Stand. Cauliflower - comes with its own snail. French, 16th century. (V&A Museum)

It’s nearing sunset. Though Grimbold’s men have held the Isen’s west bank through the whole afternoon, heavy losses now force them to abandon the earth-forts. Grimbold leads them across the Fords and they dig in to make a final defense of the east bank.

Ps 42,6
Quare tristis es, ánima mea,
et quare conturbáris in me?
Spera in Deo, quóniam adhuc confitébor illi,
salutáre vultus mei et Deus meus.

Why are you cast down, my soul; why groan within me?
Hope in God; I will praise him yet again,
my saving presence and my God.

After a ride of five hours, night has fallen. King Théoden and his éored stop and make camp. They are still more than sixty miles from the Fords of Isen.

The wizard Saruman sends a vanguard of his main army marching south—not only along the road to the Ford, but also down the Isen’s east bank. By attacking on both sides of the river, he hopes to overwhelm the forces of Rohan that still guard the Fords.

Painted portrait of a sitting white woman in 17th century dress while in a darkened room

Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), an Italian Baroque painter who was one of the first female artists to specialize in history painting. She opened an academy for women artists before her mysterious early death #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

By dawn, Gollum has brought Frodo and Sam out of the Dead Marshes. Only a wide, dry waste now stands between them and the mountains of Mordor that rise dark along the southern horizon. Gollum insists they hide from the daylight and wait until dark to start walking again.

At sunrise, Edoras is a bright speck of gold against the snow-tipped mountains. Aragorn chants a song of the Rohirrim as they ride toward it.

“Where now the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk
and the bright hair flowing?…”

On the threshold of Théoden’s hall, Aragorn must place his sword, Legolas his bow, and Gimli his axe before they enter. The doorward Háma turns to Gandalf. ‘The staff in the hand of a wizard may be more than a prop for age.’

Gandalf will not yield it.

Háma relents. They enter.

Gandalf brings King Théoden out of his dark hall, into the sunlight. The king releases Éomer. Gandalf tells Théoden to lead his folk to the Hold of Dunharrow.

‘Nay, Gandalf…I myself will go to war, to fall in the front of the battle, if it must be. Thus shall I sleep better.’