# If Tolkien mistakenly thought that date given by an almanac for the
# "new moon" was the date on which the new crescent actually appeared,
# he could actually have intended the following as the phases of the
# moon in early S.R. 1419:
#
# January 8 - Full
# February 22 - New
# March 8 - Full
# March 21 - New
#
# New and full moons spaced exactly this many days apart do occur
# several times a century.  Here are the dates from 1800 through the
# publication of The Lord of the Rings on which one can place the
# first day of the Shire Year (2 Yule) and get, as a result, the same
# four moon phases as shown above:

1822/5/27
1839/4/20
1867/7/8
1875/6/10
1892/5/3
1909/3/28
1926/2/19
1934/1/22
1937/6/15
1941/12/25
1954/5/9