For the first time, I have tried to apply KDP's new hardcover offer. And I am most impressed! The omnibus edition of my four volumes "Middle-earth seen by the barbarians", "Words of Westernesse", "Dynasties of Middle-earth" and "The Moon in 'The Hobbit'" looks most professional, the colour images are crisp, the paper feels noble - "like from the bookshop", my daughter said, admiringly! True, the printing costs for 500+ full-colour pages are rather high, close to 70 € in total, but just to s...| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
So we got exactly one new word of Adûnaic in Nature of Middle-earth: Adûnayân, that's what Adûnaic called itself, and I am forced to discard my previous hypothesis that its name was Adûnaiyê, analogous to Nimriyê 'Elvish' in the Notion Club Papers.| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
To accompany the "Hobbit" timetable that I have posted in real time during 2017/2018, the following page gives the lunar phases of every day of the year 2941 T. A., beginning in March (the Elvish New Year) and ending at 1 Yule. Note that these are approximations centered on mean solar time in Hobbiton and do not account for local times elsewhere in Middle-earth.| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
On this day, in 22 June 2942 T. A., Bilbo Baggins finally returned from his 14 months voyage to Bag-end: a rich hobbit, but at the verge of losing his home, for he had been declared dead in the meantime and Messrs Grubb, Grubb and Burrowes were auctioning his property away. Sic transit gloria hobbiti. | Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
Tolkien’s way to Rivendell (Hinteres Lauterbrunnental, | Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
The moon of 2 May 2018 and of 2942 T. A.| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
Descent to Rivendell from the east| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
Detail from the inn discovered in Zagreb| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
When I collected data for the new final chapter of "The Moon in 'The Hobbit'", I realised that there are not two but three different modes of counting time used in different regions of Middle-earth. I believe that Tolkien was inspired to use them by the Venerable Bede, from whom he also took the names of the Shire months. Briefly, those three modes are:| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
This Tuesday and Wednesday, the Kindle edition of this recent publication on astronomical phenomena in "The #Hobbit" and other works by #Tolkien can be downloaded for free: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07BCK9FNT | Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
Calendar cycles of the elder days| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
On a late depiction at the Carrock, Beorn was postumously | Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
"Farewell Thorin Oakenshield! And Fili and | Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
Thórin son of Thrain on his deathbed| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
Dain son of Nain (though for a long | Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
It was invented in Erebor, you know.| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
Two days more to march? Oh, dear!| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
A heavy load of dragon-gold| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
The new camp was within eyesight of the Lonely Mountain| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
They saw lights as of Fires and torches away south in Dale| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
A wide pool now stretched from the mountain-wall to the fall| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
Ravens! Calling everything a pony that walks on four legs.| Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
11th-century calendar from Christ Church, Canterbury (BL Arundel 155, f.7) | Lalaith's Middle-earth Science Pages
The quickly raised huts were certainly not comfortable. But it was a beginning. (Erwin Vollmer, 1904) On this day, in 2941 T. A., Bard'...| lalaithmesp.blogspot.com
