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Iarwain · 09-24-2003, 05:54 PM

When and how do men die after an approximate ten years, or (by Angmar and Sharku's judgement) seven years? Three hundred lives of men in three thousand years comes out to a lot less than we might like to think. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] So, we have to presume that either someone misquoted Gandalf in "The White Rider", or the "3000 years" and "2000 years" estimates are a long way off. Or, a third choice is that Valinor is still considered land, and therefore Gandalf walked the earth incarnate for an unknown period of time. Generationally, each person has to live at least 14 years before reproducing, so that still puts us at 4200 years.

Just thought I'd contribute.

Iarwain

[ September 24, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ]

09-24-2003, 05:54 PM	#8
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	When and how do men die after an approximate ten years, or (by Angmar and Sharku's judgement) seven years? Three hundred lives of men in three thousand years comes out to a lot less than we might like to think. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] So, we have to presume that either someone misquoted Gandalf in "The White Rider", or the "3000 years" and "2000 years" estimates are a long way off. Or, a third choice is that Valinor is still considered land, and therefore Gandalf walked the earth incarnate for an unknown period of time. Generationally, each person has to live at least 14 years before reproducing, so that still puts us at 4200 years. Just thought I'd contribute. Iarwain [ September 24, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ] __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"