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With the Holidays fast approaching- What were some of the

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A question for the scholars out there.


With the Holidays approaching , What were the Holidays celebrated in Middle Earth ?

The holiday, a brief description and who celebrated it:
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I know the Hobbits follow something very similiar to the germanic holiday system. And since elves are STRONGLY tied to nature you can probably assume druidic and wiccan holidays are fairly acceptable references.

You can also probably assume that there are numerous holidays, depending on culture, related to big-events, such as the fall of sauron, or the war of the ring, or the coming of the elves, or so on....

Not sure about DUnedain.
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pulled from the Appendices and paraphrased. . .

Yule

Although Yule is celebrated in the midwinter in the Shire, it is in some ways different from the more recently historical Yule practices in England.

The Shire's fictional Yule consisted of two days called 1 Yule and 2 Yule. The last day of the year was 1 Yule and the first day of the next year was 2 Yule. The Yuledays fell between the months called Foreyule and Afteryule and were not part of either month. 1 Yule was always on a Friday and 2 Yule fell on Saturday.

Yule was one of the two chief holidays in the Shire—the other being the midsummer holiday called Lithe. The Yule celebrations lasted six days in total, including two days before and two days after the Yuledays. This six-day period was called Yuletide. It was a time of feasting and merriment.

After the War of the Ring, it was feared that the Yule feasts would be rather meager due to shortages of provisions in the Shire. But large stores of food and beer were found in the tunnels of Michel Delving and in the quarries at Scary and in other places, so the Yuledays were a time of great cheer.

The Elves did not have a celebration at midwinter. It appears that the Rohirrim maintained the custom of celebrating the midwinter holiday as their ancestors the Northmen had done. The name of the holiday in Rohan is not known but it was most likely similar to "Yule."

The Dunedain most likely would have followed the Elven calendar.
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Thanks,

Well hoist a pint and throw a suckling pig on a spit, it's almost time to party!!
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