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"I imagine the gap [between the Fall of Barad-dur and modern times] 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 Second Age and Third Age. But they have, I think, quickened; and I imagine we are actually at the end of the Sixth Age, or in the Seventh."
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So just for the fun of it:
Fourth Age ~~ c. 4000 B.C. - c. 1200 B.C. (Age of Agriculture to Onset of Iron Age)
Fifth Age ~~ c. 1200 B.C. - c. 1400 A.D. (Age of Iron to Renaissance)
Sixth Age ~~ c.1400 A.D. - c. 1900 A.D. (Renaissance to Modern Era)
Seventh Age ~~ c.1900 - present (Modern Era)
Like I said, just for the fun of it.
Lalwendė, your information about a bigger Wales and a Cornwall landmass that stretched much farther, with wonderments about Atlantis myth, is quite fascinating.
I've related it before but the current readers of threads may not have seen it yet: there's an interesting and inconclusive similarity in phonemes between the so-called
Milesians who settled in Ireland and, Elvish-like, brought knowledge the humans amongst whom they dwelt, only to go under ground and become the Tuatha de Daanan .... and the
Miletians, people from the city-state of Miletus on the coast of the Aegean Sea, said to have been conquered by the Mycenean Greeks the same time as they conquered Troy.
This is therefore a possible link to the Sea Peoples, who migrated immediately after this major political upheaval that saw Greek hegemony and the end of The Lydian/Trojan strongholds, sending a series of people groups fleeing across the Mediterranean in various directions: Achaean Greeks fleeing from Crete before the Dorians, Philistines fleeing from Cyprus at the onset of the Achaeans and winding up in modern day Palestine (notice the similarity between the words "Palestine" and "Philistine").
Getting back to the Milesians/Miletians, it is known that there was sailing along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea by this time, and perhaps a really desperate peoplegroup might find their way to the Atlantic Ocean, then up and down the coasts of Africa or Europe, and even as far as the British Isles. I've always found the similarity in the names to be quite imagination capturing.
What correspondence this might have to Middle Earth? Who can say? I haven't thought about it yet. Perhaps none. Except that the Tuatha de Daanan are sometimes equated with the Eldar, of whom the Noldor are known to have come from Tol Eressea in ships. Early First Age, that.