Cermië

The seventh month of the year by the calendars of Númenor and Middle-earth. In the King's Reckoning of Númenor, Cermië and the preceding month of Nárië were the only months that ran to thirty-one days in length, separated from each other by Loëndë or Midsummer. The later Stewards' Reckoning standardised all of its months to a length of thirty days, and so while Cermië still followed the middle day of the year, it lost its final day.

Cermië was the Quenya name for this month, but the Dúnedain preferred the Sindarin equivalent Cerveth. In other calendars of Middle-earth, the equivalent month in the Shire was known as Afterlithe (Lithe marking the time of Midsummer), and in Bree as Mede. On a modern calendar, Cermië aligned closely with July, or to be precise the period from 23 June to 22 July. In its earlier, slightly longer form by the King's Reckoning, this month would have run to modern 23 July.

Specific months are rarely recorded in annals, but Cermié does appear in the historical of records of Gondor for the year III 1944. In the Cermië of that year, the Haradrim and Wainriders joined forces against Gondor and attacked from both the north and the south. Their approaching forces were first sighted on the ninth day of Cermië and, on the thirteenth day, Gondor's Northern Army met a disastrous defeat. King Ondoher and both his sons were slain in that fighting, leaving the South-kingdom defeated and leaderless.

In the event, the Southern Army commanded by Eärnil was still intact, and within a matter of days that army was able to avenge the King and defeat the Wainriders at the Battle of the Camp. Eärnil himself would go on to receive the Crown of Gondor.