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* '''[[2006]]''' - [[Tolkien News]] is created.
* '''[[2006]]''' - [[Tolkien News]] is created.
* '''[[2008]]''' - Fantasy novel ''[[The Search for the Red Dragon]]'' is published.
* '''[[2008]]''' - Fantasy novel ''[[The Search for the Red Dragon]]'' is published.
* '''[[2018]]''' - ''[[A Well of Wonder: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and The Inklings]]'' will be published.
==On Arda==
==On Arda==
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Events that occurred on 1 January.

On Earth

On Arda

Months in the Shire Calendar
  1. Afteryule (January)
  2. Solmath (February)
  3. Rethe (March)
  4. Astron (April)
  5. Thrimidge (May)
  6. Forelithe (June)
  7. Afterlithe (July)
  8. Wedmath (August)
  9. Halimath (September)
  10. Winterfilth (October)
  11. Blotmath (November)
  12. Foreyule (December)

Afteryule was the first month of the Shire calendar, thirty days immediately following the holiday of Yule (hence its name), and approximately corresponding to modern 23 December through 21 January. This month was called Frery in Bree and in the Eastfarthing[1]

Etymology

The name represents a modernization of the Old English name for January, æfterra ġēola.[2]

References