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Errors in LOTR Timeline
Authored by: leejoramo on Jan 13, '04 02:22:17PM
This hint shows that the destruction of the Ring occurred:

03/18 Destruction of the Ring (LOTR)

but in fact it occurred on March 25th.

Lee Joramo

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Errors in LOTR Timeline
Authored by: derrickbass on Jan 14, '04 02:04:41AM

Well, there are differences between "Shire Reckoning" and the modern calendar (which is discussed at great length in Appendix D of the trilogy). Basically, all their months were 30 days long and extra holidays were added at various points of the year to fill out the calendar. Moreover, the year did not start at the same point as ours. According to the appendix "our New Year's Day corresponded more or less to the Shire January 9."

So, Shire March 25 occurs 76 days after our New Year's (30 + 30 + 25-9), which gets you March 18. I think.

QED.

Now back to real work.



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