LORD OF THE RINGS THIRD AGE FULL

LORD OF THE RINGS THIRD AGE FULL

Note: My calculations may be off by a few years because the ages did not necessarily end after full calendar years.Berethor, our hero of sorts, comes off as kind of a Gondorian Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I doubt Tolkien meant the dating to be taken this seriously. It is my own extrapolation based on the texts cited above. There is not, so far as I know, any Tolkienien source for this table. Sixth Age of the Sun: вЂ“ 1945 CE (? years ago to 68 years ago).Fifth Age of the Sun: 1,542 BCE вЂ“ ? (3,555 years ago to ?).Fourth Age of the Sun: 4,042 BCE вЂ“ 1,542 BCE (6,055 years ago to 3,555 years ago).

Third Age of the Sun: 7,063 BCE вЂ“ 4,042 BCE (9,076 years ago to 6,055 years ago).

On the basis of this data we can assign the following correlations (with no real authority for doing so): In Judaic tradition a generation lasts 40 years but to apply that definition to TolkienвЂ™s statement, in light of the letter he wrote 7-8 years later, would be inconsistent with his idea of shortened lengths for the various ages. How long is a вЂњgenerationвЂќ? Many old sources typically placed it at about 25 years. If the Third Age ended about 6,000 years prior to 1958, that would mean it ended around the year 4042 BCE in our modern western calendar.ДЄccording to an early draft of material dropped out of the appendix for The Lord of the Rings the Fourth Age would have lasted about 2500 years (actually, вЂњone hundred generations of menвЂќ). But they have, I think, quickened and I imagine we are actually at the end of the Sixth Age, or in the Seventh. * I imagine the gap to be about 6000 years: that is we are now at the end of the Fifth Age, if the Ages were of about the same length as S.A. It is in a footnote denoted by the asterisk after вЂњgapвЂќ in the first paragraph I cite above that Tolkien writes: Many reviewers seem to assume that Middle-earth is another planet! It is a modernization or alteration (N E Dictionary] вЂa perversionвЂ™) of an old word for the inhabited world of Men, the oikoumenД“: middle because thought of vaguely as set amidst the encircling Seas and (in the northern-imagination) between ice of the North and the fire of the South. Middle-earth is (by the way & if such a note is necessary) not my own invention. However curious, they are alien, and not lovable with the love of blood-kin. I prefer that to the contemporary mode of seeking remote globes in вЂspaceвЂ™. I have, I suppose, constructed an imaginary time, but kept my feet on my own mother-earth for place. I doubt if there would have been much gain and I hope the, evidently long but undefined, gap * in time between the Fall of Barad-dГ»r and our Days is sufficient for вЂliterary credibilityвЂ™, even for readers acquainted with what is known or surmised of вЂpre-historyвЂ™.

12).6 I could have fitted things in with greater versimilitude, if the story had not become too far developed, before the question ever occurred to me. All I can say is that, if it were вЂhistoryвЂ™, it would be difficult to fit the lands and events (or вЂculturesвЂ™) into such evidence as we possess, archaeological or geological, concerning the nearer or remoter part of what is now called Europe though the Shire, for instance, is expressly stated to have been in this region (I p. As far as I know it is merely an imaginative invention, to express, in the only way I can, some of my (dim) apprehensions of the world. May I say that all this is вЂmythicalвЂ™, and not any kind of new religion or vision. The dating of the Ages of the Sun in our calendar system is one of those reasons. Tolkien, has been much cited and debated through the decades by Tolkien scholars and fans for many different reasons. Tolkien sent a very long letter to Rhona Beare, in which he answered many of her questions about The Lord of the Rings and Middle-earth. Q: When Did the Third Age End in Our Calendar?ДЄNSWER: On OctoJ.R.R.

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