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Letter: Letter

Published 6 July 2002

From Ben Curthoys

Donald’s proposal is good, but hardly revolutionary: The Shire calendar, described in appendix D of my copy of The Lord of the Rings, “began on the first day of the week, Saturday, and ended on the last day of the week, Friday. The mid-year’s day, and in leap-years the Overlithe, had no weekday name.”

London

Issue no. 2350 published 6 July 2002

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