Lithedays

The Lithedays or just The Lithe refers to the three (sometimes four) feast days between the months of Forelithe and Afterlithe of the Shire Calendar; in purpose and function the Lithedays were equivalent to the enderi of the Reckoning of Rivendell.

They were:

• 1 Lithe (midsummer-eve)
• Mid-year's Day
• — Overlithe (observed only in leap-years)
• 2 Lithe

They were called Summerdays in Bree.

Events that occurred on 1 Lithe:

• Third Age 2778 (circa)
• — Thrór draws his Map
• Third Age 2941:
• — The moon is "a broad silver crescent".
• — Elrond discovers the moon-letters on Thrór's Map.
• Third Age 3019:
• — Elrond, Glorfindel, Erestor, Elladan, Elrohir, Celeborn and Galadriel arrive with Arwen to Minas Tirith.

Each midsummer-eve the Old Took held parties, where Gandalf impressed the hobbits with fireworks.