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Dates
Brought into use in III 3019
Origins
Established by Aragorn Elessar
Race
Originated among Men
Division
Culture
Meaning
So named because it replaced the earlier Stewards' Reckoning
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At the time of the War of the Ring, the Stewards' Reckoning of Mardil had been in use in Gondor for a little under a millennium. After the Downfall of Barad-dûr, that calendar was revised once again, bringing it back into line with the old Kings' Reckoning that had been in use before Mardil's revisions.1 The New Reckoning maintained the same names for the months as previous calendars of Gondor, but rearranged matters so that the year began on 25 March by the Shire Calendar, the date of the destruction of the One Ring and the Fall of Sauron. The months were moved by some five days to accommodate this (March had thirty days on the Shire Calendar). Restarting the calendar on 25 March also meant that the first month of the year was changed to Víressë (approximately equivalent to April, the fourth month of the Shire Calendar) where it had originally been the midwinter month of Narvinyë. The calendar consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with a separate first and last day of the year. A further three days were required to complete a full year, and these were inserted as Enderi, a tradition of the Elves that placed three extra days at the end of Yavannië (essentially September). The last day of Yavannië was also important, as it was the birthday of Frodo Baggins and was made a festival named Cormarë or Ringday. To adjust the calendar to manage leap years, every fourth year this festival of Cormarë would be extended to cover a period of two days.
The New Reckoning officially began on the day of the Downfall of Barad-dûr in III 3019. It therefore ran for some eighteen months before the departure of the Ring-bearers across the Great Sea, the event that marked the end of the Third Age and the beginning of the Fourth. To avoid the confusion of the change of Age happening in the middle of the year, for the purposes of the New Reckoning the Fourth Age was held to have begun on the first day of that year, making it officially both III 3021 and IV 1.2 Notes
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