Shire-reckoning

The Shire-reckoning (Númenórean Sindarin: Genediad Drannail) was the calendar system used by the Hobbits in the Shire and (eventually) in Bree.

In Bree, Year 1 corresponded to Third Age 1300, however the Shire-reckoning Year 1 corresponded to Third Age 1601: the year that colonization of the Shire began by the Bree-hobbits Marcho and Blanco. Therefore, years of the Third Age can be converted to Shire-years by subtracting 1600.

The last year of the Third Age was year . In the New Reckoning of King Elessar, the year Fourth Age 1 began on March 25, old style. The Hobbits mostly ignored the change and so for them the first year of the Fourth Age was just .