Journeyometer 2: Rivendell is live!

[Wbweather]

I just want to say, this looks amazing! Is there a link to the new calculator I'm missing?

[Brocktoon]

How's the current status on the updated maps? If you need some testing I'd be happy to prod it in my spare time.

[Glorelendil]

Try this:
http://tor-journey.herokuapp.com/

Currently some of the features are disabled, such as the text description of the journey in the floating window, but that's also not necessary anymore because fatigue and blight checks are marked in the cells. The upper number is Fatigue TN, the lower number is Blight checks. The notation for blight checks is "A-B", where A is the number of times to roll the Feat die, where 1 or more Eye of Sauron results means Blight, and B is the number of times to check for Blight. So 2-3 would mean "roll 2 Feat dice, and do that 3 times."

There is still no support for horses, roads, or boats. I've been toying around with various strategies for that but am not happy with any of them yet.

[Terisonen]

It's already awesome...

[uhu79]

This looks really great and I like the new way to show the fatigue and blight checks. Many many thanks for this tool!

One thing that caught my attention immediately. If you break journeys down into legs or have very short journeys, you do not always get the fatigue check shown. So for instance if you travel 2-3 days in easy terrain there is no fatigue check indicated. You would need to have a method to say ("end of leg" or "end of journey"). Do you know what I mean?

[Brocktoon]

Oh holy moley, this is great work. Wow. Just wow.

[Otaku-sempai]

Just by looking at the Wikipedia should suffice, but I won't do it and will write how I consider the seasons :

Winter: 22 December - 21 March
Spring: 22 March - 21 June
Summer: 22 June - 21 September
Autumn: 22 September - 21 December

Revisiting this to note that in Gondor, under the Stewards' Reckoning, the beginning and end of the seasons were standardized to approximately coincide with the respective solstices and equinoxes, which would shift the above dates become roughly the equivalent dates in Gondor:

The Stewards' Reckoning of Gondor
Winter: Yestarë ('first-day'), followed by 1 January to 30 March
Spring: Tuilérë ('spring-day'), followed by 1 April to 30 June
Summer: Loëndë ('year-middle-day'), followed by 1 July to 30 September
Autumn: Yáviérë ('autumn-day'), 1 October to 30 December, followed by Mettarë ('last-day)

And until the New Reckoning, the year started and ended at the time of the winter solstice. Under the New Reckoning, the year began on the day of the downfall of Sauron (Shire-date of 25 March). It might be that the reckoning of the seasons was also altered so that Spring began on 25 March, Summer on 25 June, Fall on 25 September, and Winter on 25 December, bringing them more in line with our Gregorian Calendar.

The New Reckoning of Gondor
Spring: Yestarë*, followed by 1 April to 30 June
Summer: 1 July to 30 September**, followed by 1 Enderi ('middle-day') and Loëndë
Autumn: 2 Enderi ('middle-day'), followed by 1 October to 30 December
Winter: 1 January to 30 March, followed by Mettarë

* The New Year's Day of the New Reckoning fell on the old-style date of 25 March.
** In honor of Frodo, 30 September (which corresponded with former 22 September, his birthday) was made a festival, and the leap year was provided for by doubling this feast, called Cormarë or Ringday.

EDIT: The wiki says lots of things, but this one might apply (or not) to Middle-Earth

On the Celtic calendar, the traditional first day of winter is 1 November (Samhain, the Celtic origin of Halloween); spring starts 1 February (Imbolc, the Celtic origin of Groundhog Day); summer begins 1 May (Beltane, the Celtic origin of May Day); the first day of autumn is 1 August (Celtic Lughnasadh). The Celtic dates corresponded to four Pagan agricultural festivals.

My own dates relate to this:

Currently, the most common equinox and solstice dates are March 20, June 21, September 22 or 23 and December 21;

Tolkien seems to have applied at least some of these old traditions to Middle-earth, particularly in the North. This is likely why the winter seems to begin with the start of November. I would guess that the Hobbits and the Men of the North (and perhaps the Dwarves) observed a long winter (November through February) and shorter summer (June, the Lithedays, and July). The final chapter of The Hobbit provides some back-up for June as the start of summer: "...for now June had brought summer, and the weather was bright and hot again."

According to the Calendar of Imladris, the Elves observed six seasons:

Spring: Q. tuilë; S. ethuil
Summer: Q. lairë; S. laer
Autumn: Q. yávië; S. iavas
Fading: Q. quellë; S. firith
Winter: Q. hrívë; S. rhîw
Stirring: Q. coirë; S. echuir

Summer and winter both lasted for 72 days; the other seasons were each 54 days long. The start of the New Year roughly coincided with the vernal equinox. The New Year's Day of the Elves fell on April 6 in TA 3019. From The One Wiki To Rule Them All:

In every idhrinn [solar year] there were five additional days that were not considered a part of any season and were celebrated as holidays. Between Autumn and Fading were three middle-days called enedhoer (translated from the attested Quenya name enderi). They were named Ethuilor "Spring-day", Inenedh "Year-Middle" (Mid-Year's Day according to the calendar of the Elves), and Iavasor "Harvest-day" (translated from the attested Quenya names). The first day of the year was Maninor "First Year-day" (translated from Quenya), and the last day of the year was Penninor "Year-full Day".

This produced an idhrinn of 365 days, but to keep a deficit of minutes from building up over time, every 12th idhrinn had double-middle-days...

The Calendar of Imladris
yestarë ('first-day'; 1 day)
tuilë (spring; 54 days)
lairë (summer; 72 days)
yávië (autumn; 54 days)
enderi ('middle-days'; 3 days, 6 days every twelfth year)
quellë (fading, 54 days)
hrívë (winter; 72 days)
coirë (stirring; 54 days)
mettarë ('last-day'; 1 day)

Seasons by the Reckoning of the Hobbits
Winter: 1 Blotmath to 30 Solmath (1 November to 30 February)
Spring: 1 Rethe to 30 Thrimadge (1 March to 30 May)
Summer: 1 Forelithe to 30 Wedmath (1 June to 30 August)*
Autumn: 1 Halimath to 30 Winterfilth (1 September to 30 October)

* Midsummer coincides with the summer solstice, not with the middle of the season as determined by calendar dates.