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Well not by much!! I was estimating, but I'm certain was not more than 590. Prove me wrong. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Prove you wrong? JRRT wrote (as published in PoME):
"Each 'Age' last[ed] somewhat more or less than 3000 years..."
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"The Tale of Years in the Latter Ages.
The First Age was the longest. It ended with the Great Battle...".
He also wrote in Letter 131:
"Several tales of victory and tragedy are caught up in it ; but it ends with catastrophe, and the passing of the Ancient World,
the world of the long First Age."
If the First Age "was the longest" (as JRRT wrote), then you are wrong. I think what you need to do is prove that JRRT was wrong. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Perhaps you can provide a citation from JRRT stating that the whole of the "long" First Age lasted only 590 years (as opposed to just the later portion)?
By the way, the Valar gave Numenor to the Edain, not the Elves, and it was raised after the end of the First Age.
[ February 18, 2003: Message edited by: Tar Elenion ]