The Shire Reckoning, or How the Hobbits simplified their Calendar
Rate this post Now that a new year has started it seems a proper time for an essay on the Shire Reckoning; the calendar comonly in use in the Shire. This calendar shares some similarities with our own, but also contains a lot of differences. The Hobbits divided the year into 12 months, as we […]
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Don’t forget the cool date feature we have here; in your account settings you can change the date that’s visible at the top right of your screen (except in the Aragorn theme) to the Shire date. The date isn’t similar to what Tolkien describes in his book, in that the summer solstice doesn’t differ by our middle of the year by ten days, but eleven or twelve, I think. This is because A) the good professor didn’t think to take into account the fact that the summer solstice isn’t actually at the same time of the year, each year, and B) the fact that the book was written more than half a century ago. Our Shire dates should be good for some eight years, though. (note that our dates are actually more accurate than other sites’ in that respect!)