Elder Days
Middle-earth — Gondor
Kings' Reckoning · Quenya months and week
The Kings’ Reckoning of Númenor and Gondor used Quenya month-names and a seven-day week. Years are counted by Age — Tolkien placed our present in the Seventh Age.
—
In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 27 Narquelië. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — the Kings’ Reckoning
- Origin
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D
- Months
- 12, Narvinyë to Ringarë, with feast days outside them
- Week
- 7 days — Elenya, Anarya, Isilya, Aldëa, Menelya, Eärenya, Valanya
- Counts from
- In the story, by Age; here the year is shown as the Seventh Age
- Where it’s used
- Númenor and Gondor, in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
- How it’s worked out here
- Our own months under their Quenya names, and our weekdays under theirs — an alignment, not Tolkien’s month lengths
Does something here look wrong? Tell us about the Middle-earth — Gondor calendar.