Именно сегодня (ну, то есть вчера уже). Сегодня, например, четверг. А по календарю Имладриса – вовсе не
Alduuya, а
Elenya.
Цитирую Бориса Шапиро [″The Calendars of Imladris, Gondor and the Shire
and their adaptation for Gregorian reckoning″]:
«So the Shire year starts not from Afteryule 1 but from a day outside the months, 2 Yule – that is virtually Afteryule 0. Thus Afteryule 9 is the tenth day of the year. Moreover we know that the last day of the year is 1 Yule, a day outside the months too. Thus a new year in the Shire calendar starts at December 23 in Gregorian calendar»
«At least the Fall of Sauron and Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday became tolkienites’ favourite holidays. Good for us that Tolkien brought together all the events in The Tale of Years listed by date. Thus, relying on a clear statement, Tolkien fans celebrated the Fall of Barad-dur at March 25 and Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday at September 22 as it is written in LotR.
It is a pity that not all of them paid enough attention to Appendix D where the calendars of Middle-earth are scrutinized. In fact, they should have paid attention to these words: “In the above notes, as in the narrative, I have used our modern names for both months and weekdays, though of course neither the Eldar nor the Duunedain nor the Hobbits actually did so. Translation of the Westron names seemed to be essential to avoid confusion, while the seasonal implications of our names are more or less the same, at any rate in the Shire.”
Those who neglected any accuracy argued: “since it is written “March 25” then it is March 25 indeed!” and celebrated their favourite holidays in stated days of stated months. In their own way they are right, many holidays (for example the religious ones) do not fall on exact anniversaries of the events they commemorate. But this example is suitable for holidays where one needs only to unite people to commemorate something significant, not to celebrate its historically accurate anniversary. As for the War of the Ring’s events, I hold the opinion that if Tolkien struggled to write down how to correlate Middle-earth and our calendars his work must not sink into oblivion. Thus my credo is “the 25th of Rethe have no more in common with the 25th of March than with the 2nd of April”. Read on and you will learn why»
Read оn and learn why:
http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/calendars.htm
