Tolkien Calendar 2023

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a b "Biography". John Howe. Archived from the original on 6 January 2012 . Retrieved 7 January 2012. The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1996 was the official Tolkien calendar published by HarperCollins on 10 July 1995. It features art by Ted Nasmith based on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. The Tolkien Calendar 2023 is the official Tolkien calendar published by HarperCollins on 9 August 2022. It features art by Emily Austin, Jenny Dolfen, Spiros Gelekas, Justin Gerard, Donato Giancola, and Kip Rasmussen. a b "The Compleat Gyde to Tolkien Calendars". 2016. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023 . Retrieved 24 November 2023. Maine Campus Staff (14 December 1976). "Maine Campus December 14 1976". University of Maine . Retrieved 24 November 2023.

Publishers in at least 12 other English-speaking and European countries produced calendars; by 2016, some 433 different editions had been published. [1] Reception [ edit ] Early sales [ edit ] Given the decidedly Old English sound of these names, it can be assumed that this is J.R.R. Tolkien's "translation" of the archaic Westron.) The Tolkien Calendar 2022 was the official Tolkien calendar published by HarperCollins on 10 August 2021. It features art by Ted Nasmith depicting scenes from The Silmarillion. The official Tolkien calendar, this year containing 13 stunning paintings inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s THE FALL OF NÚMENOR. Featuring breathtaking artwork by Alan Lee, with two new pieces unique to this calendar.Ian and Betty Ballantine of Ballantine Books brought out a Tolkien Calendar in 1973; Ian Ballantine sent a copy to J. R. R. Tolkien, explaining that he always aimed to please the author. [2] The Tolkien Calendar 2024 is the official Tolkien calendar to be published by HarperCollins on 15 August 2023. It features art of the Second Age by Alan Lee with an introduction by Brian Sibley, editor of The Fall of Númenor. The official Tolkien calendar, this year containing 12 stunning paintings from a new generation of artists inspired by the world of Middle-earth.

The Hobbit names of the months came from names used in Anduin in antiquity, and their meanings were often obscure or forgotten. They were:

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The 2015 calendar was illustrated with paintings by Mary Fairburn, whose work Tolkien had much liked in 1968, [11] but which had remained unpublished until rediscovered by The Times Literary Supplement. [12] [13] [14]

Five other days, two between coirë and tuilë (called Yestare and Mettare) and three between yávië and hrívë (called the enderi), meant the calendar added up to 365 days. Irregularities were allowed for by adding another three days every twelve years, except the last year of a yén.When the Hobbits were still a wandering people, their calendaric unit was not a 'week', but a 'month', governed more or less by the Moon. In their old calendar, the new year began after harvest. This can be seen in the name of the month Winterfilth meaning "filling (of the year) before winter". Other calendars, such as that of 2023, presented artworks by multiple artists working in diverse styles, including Jenny Dolfen and Donato Giancola. [15] If year X is the third year after a leap year, you can reuse its calendar in years X+11, X+22, and X+28. Diana Paxson noted in Mythlore in 1984 that Lester del Rey hired Tolkien Calendar artists to illustrate Terry Brooks's 1977 The Sword of Shannara, the whole product "as closely modeled on [ The Lord of the Rings] as could be managed without actually committing plagiarism." [18] Mike Perschon, writing in Tor.com in 2012, similarly noted that del Rey hired the Brothers Hildebrandt, in Brooks's own words, to "mimic the Lord of the Rings calendar illustrations they had previously done." [19] Illustration for Terry Brooks's 1977 The Sword of Shannara by the Brothers Hildebrandt. Brooks stated that he had hired them to "mimic [their own] Lord of the Rings calendar illustrations". [19] Timmerman, John H. (1978). "Fantasy literature's evocative power". Christian Century (17): 533–537. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019.

Nasmith, Ted (2021). "Tolkien Calendar 2022". Archived from the original on 24 April 2021 . Retrieved 24 November 2023. The seven weekdays of the Shire Calendar (at the time of the War of the Ring) were Sterday, Sunday, Monday, Trewsday, Hevensday (or Hensday), Mersday, and Highday. The last day of the week, Highday, was the chief day, a post-noon holiday and time for evening feasts. If year X is the first year after a leap year, you can reuse its calendar in years X+6, X+17, and X+28. Tankard, Paul (2019). "An Art to Depict 'the Noble and the Heroic': Tolkien on Adaptation, Illustration and the Art of Mary Fairburn". Journal of Inklings Studies. 9 (1): 19–42. doi: 10.3366/ink.2019.0025. In the Eastfarthing the names of Afteryule, Astron, and Foreyule, were Frery, Chithing, and Yulemath, respectively. These correspond for the names used in Bree for those months. [2] Month numberIf year X is the second year after a leap year, you can reuse its calendar in years X+11, X+17, and X+28. Tankard, Paul (2017). " "Akin to my own Inspiration": Mary Fairburn and the Art of Middle-earth". Tolkien Studies. Project MUSE. 14 (1): 133–154. doi: 10.1353/tks.2017.0010. ISSN 1547-3163. The earliest known production is the 1969 calendar printed in the Meretricious fanzine in December 1968. It was illustrated by Tim Kirk. [1] Tolkien Calendars, displaying artworks interpreting J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, have appeared annually since 1976. Some of the early calendars were illustrated with Tolkien's own artwork. Artists including the Brothers Hildebrandt and Ted Nasmith produced popular work on themes from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit; later calendars also illustrated scenes from The Silmarillion. Some calendars have been named "Hobbit Calendar" or "Lord of the Rings Calendar", but "Tolkien Calendar" has remained the most popular choice of name.