[Deb]

I'm stunned that no one anywhere has mentioned the fact that when Frodo "comes to" in Rivendell, Gandalf tells him it's "October". Since October comes from the Gregorian calendar how could it exist in the Middle Earth time frame? I thought this was a huge technical error and that everyone would scream about it. None of the Hobbit Heads seems to have noticed.

[KfromMich]

I'm stunned that no one anywhere has mentioned the fact that when Frodo "comes to" in Rivendell, Gandalf tells him it's "October". Since October comes from the Gregorian calendar how could it exist in the Middle Earth time frame?

In the book Tolkien does use the same names for the months, although there calendar is slightly different. (All months have the same number of days, and there are special days that don't belong to any month in order for there to be the right number of days in the year.) I don't remember all the details about the calendar, but there is a section explaining it in the appendix.

[BibChr]

However, the books use common names for the months. Of course, Tolkien has extensive notes explaining the convention, as I recall, but it's there.

Dan

[aruanan]

I'm stunned that no one anywhere has mentioned the fact that when Frodo "comes to" in Rivendell, Gandalf tells him it's "October". Since October comes from the Gregorian calendar how could it exist in the Middle Earth time frame? I thought this was a huge technical error and that everyone would scream about it. None of the Hobbit Heads seems to have noticed.

But, gee, everyone for the most part was speaking in modern English. What a huge technical error. You didn't even seem to notice this.