Astron

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Months in the Shire Calendar
  1. Afteryule (January)
  2. Solmath (February)
  3. Rethe (March)
  4. Astron (April)
  5. Thrimidge (May)
  6. Forelithe (June)
  7. Afterlithe (July)
  8. Wedmath (August)
  9. Halimath (September)
  10. Winterfilth (October)
  11. Blotmath (November)
  12. Foreyule (December)

Astron or Chithing in Bree, was the fourth month of the year according to the Shire Calendar, approximately equivalent to modern April.

Etymology

The name represents a modernization of the Old English name for the Easter, ēastre.[1]

Chithing represents ciðing "germinating".[2]

References

  1. ↑ Arden R. Smith, "The Shire month-names", Mellonath Daeron - The Language Guild of the Forodrim (accessed 19 April 2024)
  2. ↑ Jim Allan (ed.) An Introduction to Elvish, Giving of Names, p. 228
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