Elder Days
Middle-earth — Shire
Hobbit calendar · a fan alignment
The Hobbits kept 12 months of 30 days plus special days (Yule, Lithe). Tolkien mused our own age is the Seventh; the Shire Reckoning here is a common fan alignment to the seasons.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 7 Blotmath. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — the Hobbits’ calendar
- Origin
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix D
- Year
- 365 days, or 366 with Overlithe
- Months
- 12, of 30 days, with the Yule and Lithe days between them
- Week
- 7 days — Sterday, Sunday, Monday, Trewsday, Hevensday, Mersday, Highday
- Leap rule
- Overlithe, after Mid-year’s Day, in leap years
- Counts from
- In the story, the founding of the Shire; here the year is shown as the Seventh Age
- Where it’s used
- The Hobbits of the Shire, in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
- How it’s worked out here
- A common fan alignment: the Shire year opens on 21 December, near the winter solstice, and the weekday follows ours
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