Month names are a thing but they exist as a translation. Same as names of people and places.
For example, Frodo Baggins is translation of Maura Labingi.
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Armand1@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I swear October is not a thing in Middle-Earth, they have different month names or something. He did say that in the movie though.
TheBat@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
tbf modern english/european month names come from rome, before that was adopted people had different names for them or they used a different system alltogether.
gnutrino@programming.dev 21 hours ago
Just checked my copy of the book and it’s October there too. It also starts by saying that Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday is 22nd September so it’s not a one off.
Armand1@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I stand corrected. Not sure where I got the impression then. False memories.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
IIRC in the appendices he translated the names of months, days, etc. into a bunch of different languages. That may be what you’re remembering
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah, people who nitpick about that tend to ignore that all of Lord of the Rings is supposed to be a translation.