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[-] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 15 points 5 months ago

The only one that really bothers me is them using the Gregorian calander.

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 17 points 5 months ago

The idea is that it's a translation, so some words are just modern ones used in place of what the 'real' ones are.

[-] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 months ago

Tolkien's books are essentially english/European mythology, so it kind of sort of makes sense

[-] Thavron@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

I believe there's a whole section of one of the books devoted to the in world-calendars and their relation to the Gregorian one.

[-] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

I didn't know that, but that's good.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

Agreed. It already bothers me that we use it

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