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Wow...really good posts from everyone
I just wanted to add that the Great Plague that came over Gondor in the middle of the Third Age can be assosiciated with the Great Bubonic Plague of 1347-1353 in Europe that also had a devastating effect.
We can also take into account we are now in the beginning of the Seventh Age, as Tolkien himself said.
And it seems that each Age was ended by a quite important event...
I would say that the end of the Sixth Age was marked by both World Wars, which determined Tolkien to say we're at the beginning of the Seventh Age right now.
And the end of the Fifth would in my opinion be the Industrial Revolution...
But I can't think what the end of the Fourth would be...any ideas?
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