Nárië

The sixth month of the year, according to the calendars of Men, following Lótessë, and preceding Loëndë, the feast of Midsummer. The traditional Quenya name Nárië was in common use across Middle-earth, except among the Dúnedain, who preferred the Sindarin equivalent, which was Nórui. Both versions of the name incorporate an Elvish word for 'heat' or 'Sun', marking the fact that Nárië was the first month of summer.

On the original King's Reckoning of Númenor - also used through the earlier history of Gondor - this month had thirty-one days, beginning on modern 22 May and running through to 21 June. When Steward Mardil revised the calendar to create the Stewards' Reckoning, he standardised all the months to a length of thirty days each, and so Nárië was shortened from thirty-one to thirty days. On this later calendar, the month therefore began a day later, on modern 23 May, and continued through to Midsummer as it had on the earlier version of the calendar.