Tolkien Calendar 2023

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Howe, John (2006). "Portfolio: Calendars, diaries and maps". Archived from the original on 17 March 2006 . Retrieved 24 November 2023. The twelve months of the Shire Calendar were: Afteryule, Solmath, Rethe, Astron, Thrimidge, Forelithe, Afterlithe, Wedmath, Halimath, Winterfilth, Blotmath, and Foreyule. Solmath was usually pronounced and sometimes written as Somath. Thrimidge was often written Thrimich and Blotmath was pronounced as Blodmath or Blommath. Ian and Betty Ballantine of Ballantine Books brought out a Tolkien Calendar in 1973; Ian Ballantine sent a copy to J. R. R. Tolkien, explaining that he always aimed to please the author. [2] Tankard, Paul (2019). "An Art to Depict 'the Noble and the Heroic': Tolkien on Adaptation, Illustration and the Art of Mary Fairburn". Journal of Inklings Studies. 9 (1): 19–42. doi: 10.3366/ink.2019.0025. Other calendars, such as that of 2023, presented artworks by multiple artists working in diverse styles, including Jenny Dolfen and Donato Giancola. [15]

The 2015 calendar was illustrated with paintings by Mary Fairburn, whose work Tolkien had much liked in 1968, [11] but which had remained unpublished until rediscovered by The Times Literary Supplement. [12] [13] [14] Collier, Pieter (26 March 2014). "Tolkien Calendar 2015 features artwork from artist Mary Fairburn from The Lord of the Rings". Tolkien Library . Retrieved 5 November 2023. Nasmith, Ted (2021). "Tolkien Calendar 2022". Archived from the original on 24 April 2021 . Retrieved 24 November 2023. The Tolkien Calendar 2024 is the official Tolkien calendar to be published by HarperCollins on 15 August 2023. It features art of the Second Age by Alan Lee with an introduction by Brian Sibley, editor of The Fall of Númenor. The table below shows where the days and dates given in calendars for different years are the same. This is handy if you want to re-use your old calendars - after all if you have gone to the trouble of collecting all those calendars from the 70s and 80s you might as well get some use out of them!Five other days, two between coirë and tuilë (called Yestare and Mettare) and three between yávië and hrívë (called the enderi), meant the calendar added up to 365 days. Irregularities were allowed for by adding another three days every twelve years, except the last year of a yén.

a b "The Compleat Gyde to Tolkien Calendars". 2016. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023 . Retrieved 24 November 2023. Tankard, Paul (14 September 2012). "An Unknown Vision of Middle-earth: Mary Fairburn: Tolkien Illustrator". Times Literary Supplement. The official Tolkien calendar, this year containing twelve stunning paintings inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. Featuring breathtaking artwork by Ted Nasmith, with new and lesser known pieces unique to this calendar. Lee, Alan. "Tolkien Calendar 2024 Tolkien Calendar 2024, inside view Tolkien Calendar, inside view Tolkien Calendar 2024 Tolkien Calendar 2024". British Library. Archived from the original on 24 November 2023 . Retrieved 24 November 2023.The Hobbit names of the months came from names used in Anduin in antiquity, and their meanings were often obscure or forgotten. They were: The Yuledays were the days that mark the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one, so 2 Yule was the first day of the year. The Lithedays (referred to as the Summerdays in Bree) are the three days in the middle of the year, 1 Lithe, Mid-year's Day, and 2 Lithe. In leap years (every fourth year except centennial years) a day was added after Mid-year's Day called Overlithe. All these days were placed outside of any month. These days were primarily holidays and feast days. Mid-year's Day is meant to correspond to the summer solstice, being approximately 10 days earlier than the middle day of our year. [2] Days of the week [ edit | edit source ] Featuring 12 full-color paintings of scenes from The Silmarillion, some of which are new and unique to this calendar, Ted Nasmith explores Tolkien’s creation with greater depth than ever before. Ranging from the Elder Days of Middle-earth, through the Second Age and the rise of Sauron, to the end of the War of the Ring, the reader is drawn even further into the fantastical world of Middle-earth. The 1981 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar was the official Tolkien calendar published by Ballantine Books in 1980. It features art by Douglas Beekman, Michael Herring, Rowena Morrill, Judy King Rieniets and Darrell Sweet based on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.