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tolkien100Author: Himring
Source / Fandom: Lord of The Rings; Unfinished Tales (House of Elros)
Rating: Teens
Warnings: reference to canonical character death
Characters: Elrond
Disclaimer: Elrond and the calendar are from Middle-earth; the rest is Himring's embroidery.
A/N: Tolkien apparently uses both the spellings King's Reckoning and Kings' Reckoning for the Numenorean calendar in LOTR Appendix D, which got me a bit muddled. This take is based on the version with the plural "Kings'".
For years, Elrond had to suppress a wince when he heard the term Kings’ Reckoning.
He did not know who had come up with this Numenorean adaptation of the calendar—maybe his nephew Vardamir, the lore-master, never a King except on paper. Maybe it had been refined by Meneldur, the passionate astronomer, before he became King.
What was clear was that it could not have received its current name until there had been more than one King—until Elros had died. Worse, the first time Elrond had heard the term was when he was told the date of Elros’s death.
Source / Fandom: Lord of The Rings; Unfinished Tales (House of Elros)
Rating: Teens
Warnings: reference to canonical character death
Characters: Elrond
Disclaimer: Elrond and the calendar are from Middle-earth; the rest is Himring's embroidery.
A/N: Tolkien apparently uses both the spellings King's Reckoning and Kings' Reckoning for the Numenorean calendar in LOTR Appendix D, which got me a bit muddled. This take is based on the version with the plural "Kings'".
For years, Elrond had to suppress a wince when he heard the term Kings’ Reckoning.
He did not know who had come up with this Numenorean adaptation of the calendar—maybe his nephew Vardamir, the lore-master, never a King except on paper. Maybe it had been refined by Meneldur, the passionate astronomer, before he became King.
What was clear was that it could not have received its current name until there had been more than one King—until Elros had died. Worse, the first time Elrond had heard the term was when he was told the date of Elros’s death.
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Date: 2026-01-27 11:59 am (UTC)What a shock and sadness for him. Maybe he should turn his attention to the more cheerful and innocuous Shire Reckoning.
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Date: 2026-01-28 02:11 pm (UTC)