Yule
Two days in the calendars of the Hobbits that marked the end of one year, and the beginning of the next. On a modern calendar, they fell on...
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Years of the Trees
The long years that lay between the founding of Valinor and its Darkening. During this time, Valinor was lit by the light of the Two Trees,...
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Years of the Sun
Since the destruction of the Lamps of the Valar in the far distant past, the Valar had dwelt for millennia in Aman under the light of the...
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Winterfilth
The tenth month of the Shire Calendar, approximately equivalent to modern October (in fact running from 22 September to 21 October on a...
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Wedmath
The eighth month of the Shire Calendar, following Afterlithe and approximately equivalent to modern August. In fact, it ran from modern 24...
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Thrimidge
The fifth month of the Shire Calendar, lying between Astron and Forelithe, and approximately equivalent to modern May. In fact, it ran from...
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Third Age
The Third Age began a little over four thousand years after the Rising of the Moon in the first year of the First Age. Of the Ages, it is...
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Summerfilth
A non-existent month in the Shire calendar, used jocularly in the expression ‘on Friday the first of Summerfilth’, to refer to...
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Stewards? Reckoning
The calendar system introduced in Gondor by Mardil Voronwë, its first Ruling Steward. It survived until the end of the Third Age, and was...
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Sterday
From ancient times, the Elves had dedicated the first day of the week to the stars: in Quenya it was named Elenya, and in Sindarin the...
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Shire-reckoning
The system of reckoning dates unique to the Hobbits of the Shire, based on the founding of that land in III 1601. The Shire-hobbits...
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Shire Calendar
The calendar in use by the Hobbits of the Shire, in which the year was divided into twelve months of thirty days each, with five additional...
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Second Age
Dating from a point 590 years after the first rising of the Sun, the Second Age began after Morgoth was defeated in the War of Wrath and...
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