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12-04-2002, 04:36 PM | #1 |
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What did Middle-Earthians celebrate?
Or is it Middle-Earthlings? Anyway, did they have their equivilent Chrstmas, harvest festival, Easter or is it just not mentioned?
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12-04-2002, 04:39 PM | #2 |
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I don't recall there being any specific celebrations anywhere, except maybe in the Shire of course.There would have been one after the ring was destroyed I suppose and probably a New Year party as well. I wonder what elves would celebrate though...
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12-04-2002, 07:34 PM | #3 |
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I believe they celebrated YULE and the Dwarves certianly celebrated DURIN'S DAY, the first day of the Dwarves' new year which is the first day of the last moon of Autumn.
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12-04-2002, 10:50 PM | #4 |
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*Spoiler*The appendix D tells the calendar of Middle Earth. According to my book after the LOTR the elves celebrated Frodos Bday on September 22 with a festival.
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12-05-2002, 04:10 AM | #5 |
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In The Hobbit the Elves of Rivendell held a Mid-summer festival.
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12-05-2002, 04:32 AM | #6 |
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Didn't the Hobbit's celebrate their coming to the Shire every year? They also had a 'county fair' every 7 years didn't they?
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12-05-2002, 12:48 PM | #7 |
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Well, they certainly did celebrate birthdays . . . I wish I could be a hobbit just so I could celebrate my birthday in the Shire . . .
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12-05-2002, 07:02 PM | #8 |
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They certainly didn't celebrate Christmas or Easter, or anything similar, because it was set in a pre-Christian time. I don't have the appendices with me because I lent RotK out...ARGH! It's driving me crazy. 13 days till TT and I wanted to read the whole of LotR again...meow.
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12-07-2002, 02:57 PM | #9 |
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True enough, Merri, Hobbits did celebrate birthdays, but generally they gave rather than recieved gifts on their birthdays.
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12-07-2002, 09:02 PM | #10 |
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It was still a day of great celebration. Actually, it wasn't unlike Christmas in the way they looked forward to it, and with the giving of presents to everyone.
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