Timeline/genealogies of the TFTE - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Findegil · 07-26-2024, 05:56 AM

First of all, not be misunderstood: I am greatly interested in a time line and in the genealogies and will, if I can, contribute to the discussion of them! I as well think they can be great help for this project.

But (and that is a big BUT) I do not see how the result can be part of the final result of this project and I have greate doubts that under the strict rules this project has given itself, any meaning full version of either Time Line or Genalogie can be produced.

Form the start the project was one of editing text's not writing them. Our editorial additions were small and most often just single words of gramatical necessity. I can not imagin how that could be true of a Time Line that we could create. We don't have the necessary sources for that! And if we had the Tale of the Years of the first age completly, I doubt that an updated version would satisfy Arvegil145's wishes: There would be lots of dates we could not enter, so we would be decently sure of their placment, because we would not have an apropirate source text to work with. Look at the Tale of the Yeas of the second and third age as found in the Appendix of LotR. Are they what you would wish for? Probably not, but that is about what we could get under the rules of the project.

Time Lines and Genealogies do state very acurate facts. There is not much space for ambiguity in them. But facts are hard to come by in Middle-earth! The project could navigate around many hotly discussed issues only by leaving the decission to the reader. And I don't see how that could be done in Time Linies or Genealogies.

Respectfully
Findegil

07-26-2024, 05:56 AM	#4
Findegil King's Writer Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,721	First of all, not be misunderstood: I am greatly interested in a time line and in the genealogies and will, if I can, contribute to the discussion of them! I as well think they can be great help for this project. But (and that is a big BUT) I do not see how the result can be part of the final result of this project and I have greate doubts that under the strict rules this project has given itself, any meaning full version of either Time Line or Genalogie can be produced. Form the start the project was one of editing text's not writing them. Our editorial additions were small and most often just single words of gramatical necessity. I can not imagin how that could be true of a Time Line that we could create. We don't have the necessary sources for that! And if we had the Tale of the Years of the first age completly, I doubt that an updated version would satisfy Arvegil145's wishes: There would be lots of dates we could not enter, so we would be decently sure of their placment, because we would not have an apropirate source text to work with. Look at the Tale of the Yeas of the second and third age as found in the Appendix of LotR. Are they what you would wish for? Probably not, but that is about what we could get under the rules of the project. Time Lines and Genealogies do state very acurate facts. There is not much space for ambiguity in them. But facts are hard to come by in Middle-earth! The project could navigate around many hotly discussed issues only by leaving the decission to the reader. And I don't see how that could be done in Time Linies or Genealogies. Respectfully Findegil