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Dates
21 June - 23 June on a modern calendar (with one extra day in a leap year)
Race
Culture
Pronunciation
Lithe is pronounced 'li'the', with 'th' as in 'these'
Meaning
Lithe comes from the Old English month name Liða, 'warm, gentle'
Other names
Known in Bree as the Summerdays

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Lithedays

The Shire’s midsummer holiday

A group of three days inserted into the Shire Calendar between the months of June and July (or, as the Shire-hobbits knew those months, Forelithe and Afterlithe). These three days, marked with merriment and feasting, fell at midsummer, and indeed the middle Litheday was also known as Mid-year's Day. Every four years there was also a fourth Litheday, the Overlithe, that fell immediately after Mid-year's Day and so adjusted the calendar to take account of a leap year.


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