Dwalin the Dwarf - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Meriadoc1961 · 10-08-2007, 09:09 AM

Where did you discover that Dwalin lived to be 340? I have no explanation for his extraordinarily long life.

Merry

Raynor · 10-08-2007, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Meriadoc1961

Where did you discover that Dwalin lived to be 340?

It is found in the same essay about Dwarves, "Durin's Folk" - note 17.

William Cloud Hicklin · 10-08-2007, 10:17 AM

More accurately, Note 17 to "Durin's Folk" comments on the anomalous dates given in the family tree in Appendix A.

One bit of evidence which might indicate a slip is that this is the only Fourth Age date in the table which is not expressed in Fourth Age terms. One might speculate that the date was originally 3012- an age of 240- but Tolkien then realized this contradicts Gloin's statement that all the survivors of the Battle of Five Armies, save Balin's expedition, were still alive in 3018, and he corrected it clumsily.

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Meriadoc1961 Wight Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 101	Where did you discover that Dwalin lived to be 340? I have no explanation for his extraordinarily long life. Merry __________________ "If I yawn again, I shall split at the ears!"

10-08-2007, 10:17 AM	#3
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	More accurately, Note 17 to "Durin's Folk" comments on the anomalous dates given in the family tree in Appendix A. One bit of evidence which might indicate a slip is that this is the only Fourth Age date in the table which is not expressed in Fourth Age terms. One might speculate that the date was originally 3012- an age of 240- but Tolkien then realized this contradicts Gloin's statement that all the survivors of the Battle of Five Armies, save Balin's expedition, were still alive in 3018, and he corrected it clumsily. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.