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Do we have any version of any timeline which puts 6000 years between the sundering of the Teleri and the end of the First Age? The Late Timeline makes it about 3500 years, so we'd need to double the length somewhere.
Alternately - this seriously post-dates the last comment on how long ago the Elder Days were (by almost a decade). Could it mean that the War of the Ring ended ca 1500 BC? That would make the Fourth Age begin roughly with the founding of Mycenaean Greece and the New Kingdom of Egypt. That... kind of works, actually?
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Well, I think the earlier timelines (ones dealing with the Great Journey) have absurdly long figures, but not in this specific range of c. 6,000 years IIRC.
As to the extended duration - remember that footnote in the 'Elvish Ages & Numenorean' about the timespan between Elves coming to Aman and the end of the War of Wrath being 'very like longer [than 3,100 years]': the one dealing with Celeborn's age and his descent from Elmo?
Depending on how you stretch the definition of 'longer than 3,100 years' - this can work. Especially since I think the quote in my OP might refer to the bulk of that extra time being spent in the events in Aman/Beleriand, and not on, say, the part of the Journey from Hithaeglir to the coast of Beleriand.
And as for your suggestion about the timespan between us and the War of the Ring being much shorter - it's possible, but unlikely I think (if anything, leave Tolkien to his own devices and he would most probably make it even longer than 9,250 years, judging by the ever more 'realistic' direction he was taking the legendarium over the decades following the LOTR).
The most important thing though is that while we
can speculate on new figures, truth is there really are only 2 canonical figures he ever gave - and we should follow the latest (the 1960 one, that is, unless some new information surfaces later).
All in all, I would follow the 1960 figure + the footnote to the 'Elvish Ages & Numenorean' and extended the Elves' stay in Aman.
P.S. Did you see my above post about the Awaking of the Dwarves, the one immediately before the 'extended timeline'?
Also, I've since got around to the 'Telerin Celeborn' idea - it's been really consistent in the last 5 or 6 years of Tolkien's life, and it would neatly give us the opportunity to include Gilitiro from the new PE23 as a possible son of Olwe.
Additionally, I've also been fairly convinced that the 'Celebrimbor in Nargothrond' footnote from the PoME might be much later than I previously thought, and in fact Tolkien's latest word on the subject.
Finally, I pretty much abandoned my own shorter timeline - really the only thing it has going for it is that it lines up more elegantly with the duration of the following Ages (as well as having only 6 generations at Cuivienen) - but other than that, it clearly falls short of Tolkien's later intentions.