Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-29212138-20161221031126/@comment-26553378-20161221205222

LordArvedui wrote: So, as I searched through the wiki activity, I found a Christmas suggestion. It can't work for what should be obvious reasons, so I thought, 'too bad, it would be nice to have holidays in lotr.' Then I realized, there are holidays!

Here's how it would work. Four different calendars are used in the land of arda, the Shire Reckoning, the Numenorian Calender, the dwarves calendar (though it has little info,) and the Calendar of Imladris. Each calendar and race have similar holidays. First off, all races have lithe, a three day holiday with midsummers day in the middle. Then, three, the dwarves, men, and hobbits celebrate Yule, the near Christmas holiday of Middle Earth. Tie is two days, the first day of the year and the last day of the year. Lastly there is durin's day, which is in the little known calendar of the dwarves. If compared to shire reckoning though, it is found that it takes place on the last waxing crescent moon of autumn.

So what would happen? Simple, those factions that celebrate the holiday would have celebrations for it. Yule is based off of Christmas, so I believe it should be something like that. A gift giving time. Midsummers/lithe would be a feasting day with hobbit carnivals in the white downs and parties feasts and celebrations for every celebrator. As for durins day, on this day dwarves would celebrate much like during lithe.

Thanks for reading :) the "christmas" suggestion you found was on yule...

how is this making it past 5 kudos? the last one i saw was harvest festival (day/time of plenty right after harvest, celebrated in various cultures etc)