In the course of my research, I was kindly provided with a great many suggestions for dates to mark the transitions between the Ages by society members. When combined with the more extensive canonical information I have available, this becomes quite a powerful method for ascertaining the lengths of all of the latter ages, and I follow it here. Martinez does something similar, dating the end of the 6 th age to the end of World War Two, though he leaves the duration of the Fifth Age uncertain. Working within the approximate temporal framework given by Tolkien, Steele’s approach is to assign the remaining transitions to events of historic or symbolic significance. While in the previous post I rejected the conclusions reached by Tony Steele in his article, his basic methodology for dating the later ages has a lot going for it. As for the Hebrew value, I discount it as it leads to an age grossly larger than any of the preceding ages, which strikes my mind as untidy. Since we are dealing with prophesy here, I think traditional concept more likely than a biologically-realistic one, so I discount the 20 year value for a generation. I previously postponed a decision regarding a definitive duration for this age, however here I will go out on a limb and state that it should be 2720 years.
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Finally, thanks to the Prophecy of Eldarion, we know that the Fourth Age itself ought to have endured for a full 100 generations after the end of the reign of Eldarion, and so ought to have lasted about 2220, 2720 or 4220 years. We can further be reasonably certain that we have but recently entered the Seventh Age (circa 1958), and that the ages themselves have been “quickening”, since the Elder Days. From various sources, we know that in the region of 6000 to 8000 years have elapsed since the end of the Third Age.
Still, allow me the mercy of an indulgent rhetorical device.īefore we go further, lets recapitulate the canon information we’ve established to calibrate our dating. Of course, if you’ve read my first article, you’ll know I’ve already come up with an answer to this particular question, making that statement null and void. Still, with few words spared in the pursuit of the enterprise, we can now finally begin to work out a chronology for the events after the end of the Third Age. Well, it’s been a long road since I first set out on this absurd enterprise, and while I like to think I’ve kept my feet, I never would have imagined the places I was swept off to in the course of it.
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Allow your Editor now to present the final installment of of Joe Bartram‘s four-part article series on Middle-Earth’s calendars, in which he concludes his investigations and establishes a calendar for the Society. Joe, frequently known as Gandalf, has been the Society’s President since 2014.
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