Originally Posted by
ctheg
OK. I have been thinking about this for awhile and have become desperate. I have looked through the indexes of my old LOTR books and everything but could find nothing. But I am desperate so I have come up with this loose theory of sorts. It all starts with the third stanza
"If lust for power and dominion reign,
Should knowledge attempt to delve too deep
Then hope and endeavour shall be in vain
And thy spirit shall wander, the Eldar, shall weep
When the Sun is gone, and the Moon is dead
No light on thy path. No more sign, to be read.'"
I believe that this stanza is basically saying If we get impatient or try to delve too deeply into the words then we will not find the answer and we will continue to be confused. So I started looking at the syllables and could not find any correlations until I looked at the last word of each line and saw that the first stanza last-word-syllable count is 9 which, on a calendar equals September. Also in this stanza there are 12 capitalized lettersre are 12 months in a year, so, I think this indicates the release will be in september. In the second stanza there are 8 last-word-syllables and 12 capital letters which could mean anything, but, if you count the letters in the last words of each line it adds up to 31 which is how many days most months of the year have. And if when you count you don't include the G in gorthaur because it is capitalized it goes to 30 which is how many days are in september, hence September 8. If you look at the third and final stanza there are 6 last word syllables and 10 capital letters. If you add the two it equals 16. I'm most likely just grasping at straws but after lots of thinking and desperation I believe the release will be September 8, 2016