Months... the Council of Elrond was October 25 of the same year. The next entry given is the December one.
What I meant though, was that entry was the only December entry that I could find in the entire Tale of Years. If you thought April was a slow month....
Yeah, I remember wondering why they waited around so long. If they'd left in October surely the weather would have been a little better.
The earlier years don't have many actual dates, right? So some of the other stuff probably happened in December, we just don't know it.