The Shire-Reckoning

Welcome to the website for the ‘Shire-Reckoning’ Twitter accounts! Each account live-tweets the events of The Lord of the Rings on the dates and times they occurred:

@ShireReckoning — Timed for Oxford, England
@ShireReckoningW — Six hours later, for the Western Hemisphere

For example:

The Shire-Reckoning · Sep 22 · 5:50 am

The day dawns bright for Frodo’s 50th birthday. The only furniture remaining at Bag End are the pieces that Frodo is selling tomorrow, with the hole itself, to the Sackville-Bagginses.

Here’s an archive of the full year, in case you want the freedom to browse through them more conveniently:

January 8–10 11–13 14–15 16–17 20–25
February 14–16 17–25 26 27–28 29–30
March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16–17 18–24 25 27–28
April 1–30
May 1–30
June 1–30
July 1–30
September 18–21 22 23 24 25 26 27–28 29 30
October 1–5 6 7–18 19–24 25
December 1–30

This site also offers a range of older material, written back before Twitter existed—when this site offered daily summaries of The Lord of the Rings as an RSS feed:

An archive of the old daily summaries.
A description of the Shire Calendar.
A spectacularly thorough analysis of the Phases of the Moon in The Lord of the Rings, including every single time the phase of the Moon is mentioned by either the narrator or a character.
An old-school Frequently Asked Questions list: questions which, per the rules of the genre, had never actually been asked—much less ‘frequently’ asked—but were invented by the author to forestall questions that he imagined people asking.