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Tolkien Topics: Reading Room:
Yes, and no?:
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Otaku-sempai
Elvenhome
Thu, 7:25pm
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Shire dates are in advance of ours by about ten days. Certainly, some events align closely with the astronomical framing. Others are close, but maybe more-or-less coincidental, especially when we take into account that Middle-earth does not use the Gregorian Calendar.
Bilbo's and Frodo's birthdays come about a week or so before the autumn equinox. The Battle of Bywater looks is close to the date of All Hallow's, but it would have occurred in late October if we adjust for our modern calendar. The spring equinox in Middle-earth falls around the first of April (with the new year of the Calendar of Imladris beginning on April 6). Even so the destruction of the Ring is only a few days before that.
The departure of the Fellowship from Rivendell takes place a few days before the beginning of Yule-tide, which coincides with the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere; and of course December 25 is Christmas Day for most of the modern world. And, of course, the Shire's Free Fair takes place at mid-summer during the Lithedays, coinciding with the summer solstice.
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(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Thu, 7:30pm)
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Post edited by Otaku-sempai
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