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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
Yes and yes. JRRT sometimes used drawn symbols and sometimes abbreviations to keep track of lunar phases, but track them he did. I speculate in my paper, just a bit, about that second, deleted moon. That was a very important one, as well: the one which Pippin sees from the back of Shadowfax on the night of the war-beacons, which Frodo sees setting over the Forbidden Pool, and which governs the muster of the Rohirrim.
(BTW, that page is as legible as news headlines compared to a typical page!)
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Thanks, so glad to learn that!
I can only guess it might track to a note quoted in HoMe7 p. 369:
my father wrote at the head of the first page of it: Moons are after 1941-2 + 6 days. He changed this to + 5 days, and added: thus Full Moon Jan. 2 is Jan. 7.
BTW, that easy page already racked my brains, you worked miracle!