Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Oct 21 2018, 1:30pm
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The Beginning of the Last Week of Autumn
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While I do very much like the date of October 22 to represent the Durin's Day of 2941 (as you know, it is my own personal pick), there is still the serious question of what reckoning of time was being used by Thorin and Balin. This was indeed the beginning of the last week of October in the calendar of the Shire-folk; however, the dwarves were speaking between themselves and might have been using a dwarvish reckoning with which we are unfamiliar. For the sake of simplicity (and my sanity!) I generally assume that Durin's Folk have adopted their days of the week and reckoning of the seasons from the same Northmen sources used by the Hobbits--but we do not know this with certainty.
"For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered." - Harlan Ellison
(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Oct 21 2018, 1:42pm)
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