- Shire Calendar
- The calendar in use by the Hobbits of the Shire, in which the year was divided into twelve months of thirty days each, with five additional days to make up a full 365-day year.
J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. MueRTe. 2003.
Shire Calendar
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