Tolkien's final First Age timeline

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Arvegil145

P.S. Sorry for name-dropping you in the title - but I figured I would've waited another year or more if I posted this in the usual thread.

I mean, if I was working on any of the various timelines you'd know, because I'd be incapable of not posting about it. I have no new insights.

Originally Posted by Arvegil145

So perhaps '7-8,000 years ago' could be a sufficient guideline for the c. 1968+ Silvan Elves and Silvan Elvish statement of there being as many years between our time and the War of the Ring as there is between the end of the First Age and the separation of the Nandor at Hithaeglir.

Oh but this is good. Is this a new "final comment" on the timeline? Letters (6000 years since War of the Ring) was ca. 1958, NoME (16 000 years since Men entered Beleriand) was ca. 1960; and now this is 1964.

And naturally, it lies right between the two previous figures (6000 or 9250 years), and is vague enough that I don't know whether we would be calculating on 8000 or 7500 years.

I think you're right that this has to be our guide for the Silvan Elves comment. It looks like I really struggled to make 9250 or so years work; that's not a surprise, given that our timelines and AAm both said it was about 4000 years from the separation to the end of the Age. In fact I never did resolve it: my Version 5 timeline just cuts from 5472 to 11303 in a year. Um... whoops!

The flexibility of 7000-8000 might make it more workable. I will have to take yet another look... What we really need is an interactive timeline where you can select your assumptions. I bet I could do that, too.

hS