Tolkien's final First Age timeline

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Arvegil145

So, even if you assume the earlier, conservative 1958 figure of c. 6,000 years (from the Letters) - that still leaves 6,000 years between the sundering of the Nandor and the end of the War of Wrath.

If you assume the later, 1960 figure from the NoME - that's c. 9,250 years.

In any case, this expands the timeline massively.

Oh dear. XD

Linking the Ages discussion and my Late Timeline to keep it together... there are a few Timeline texts which might come after this, but nothing which affects the bulk of the dating. EDIT: and the Arvegil timeline

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?

EDIT: I am working on a comparison table of the different timelines (Tolkien's or ours). I need to Have My Books to get the rest of the dates in, but you can see the shape of it.

hS