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elbert

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Not to steal the thunder from that other thread (Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!), but I know I'm not the only part-time denizen of Middle-Earth hereabouts.
As it happens, today (October 12-13) is the first day of the New Year on the lunar calendar of the Dwarves.
"The first day of the Dwarves' New Year," said Thorin, "is as all should know the first day of the last moon of Autumn on the threshold of Winter."
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It was during the New Moon of October 30th in the year 2941 of the Third Age when Bilbo found the secret door into Erebor--Durin's Day, because the Sun and the New Moon were in the sky together.
Time for those New Year's Resolutions!

 
brian64

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As it happens, today (October 12-13) is the first day of the New Year on the lunar calendar of the Dwarves.
"The first day of the Dwarves' New Year," said Thorin, "is as all should know the first day of the last moon of Autumn on the threshold of Winter."
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Wouldn't that be next month? The lunar cycle from 11/11 to 12/11 would be the last full lunar cycle of autumn, would it not?

 
elbert

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There appears to be controversy on that point. In the calendar of the Shire, the summer and winter solstices (Lithe and Yule) are referred to as "Mid-Summer" and "Mid-Winter" respectively--not the start of the season, but the traditional (if not exact) middle of it.
Winter is understood, then, to start sometime in the second half of November. It sort of makes sense--it puts all the shortest days of the year in Winter (rather than Autumn/Winter), and all of the longest days in Summer (rather than Spring/Summer). For convenience's sake we might say;
Winter-December, January, February

Spring-March, April, May

Summer-June, July, August

Autumn-September, October, November
But that's the challenge with lunar calendars, they either run shorter than the seasons or they have to be corrected every solar year.

 

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