noWizardme
Gondolin
Jan 2, 4:10pm
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Quite right, I agree - Durin's Day is a perfectly good thing to put in your Jan 1 installment because it is a New Years' Day (whenever it falls!).
Fun that Middle-earth, like the Primary World, has more than one New Year's Day. In the real world (at least round my parts) it is unremarkable for folks to enjoy several of them: both Hogmanay and Chinese New Year, for example.
IIRC Aragorn had Dwarven workers to replace the Gates of Minas Tirith (after the seige resulted in "Gone, door!"), and I suppose some care would have been needed about dates in the contracts! I'm amusing myself with the possibility of confusion over any poorly drafted clause that involved years. Gondor had just moved to a year starting 25 March (from whatever they did before: stay alert, lawyers and scribes, are dates new style or old?!), and the Dwarves might be calculating from Durin's Day. It's enough to put you into a New Year's Daze 
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"I am not made for querulous pests." Frodo 'Spooner' Baggins.
(This post was edited by noWizardme on Jan 2, 4:12pm)
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