Stewards' Reckoning

Stewards' Reckoning
   The Gondorian calendar of the later Third Age.
   The calendar system introduced in Gondor by Mardil Voronwë, its first Ruling Steward. It survived until the end of the Third Age, and was thus the calendar in use at the time of the War of the Ring.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. . 2003.

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