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How do you know when one age in M:E ends and one begins? Like...I either read (in the appendix or something) or heard that we are now living in the Seventh Age....but how do you know when it ends and the next one starts??? This may be a very obvious question...but I never see the obvious

Its usually an event that ends the age.... like the fall of Sauron

Ah, I see....So what happened to end the rest of the ages? Like, say, the fifth? Or the sixth? Or whatever...

Trully i'm not sure and in comparison to the others in this thread i'm just as clueless ... I should have put "i think" .... but if i had to guess... maybe things like very large wars or the fall of Saurons prediscessor.

Yeah. That makes sense, though....Plus, it's more than I would have known

Oooh we are in the seventh age? really?

That's what I read.

wow!!! i looked in the appendices to see if anything happened on my bday, Febuary 15th, and nothing happened, but something happened the 14th and 16th! LOL

Yeah, I did that, too. Gandalf arrived in Hobbiton on my birthday April 12th.

Sauron should be proud that he started 2 new ages...

but, yeah, anything big that happens triggers a new age...

Aragornauron is defeated, let this be the begening of the fourth age
crowd:huzzah!!!
---two--days--latter---
Burlyman:I've just discovered unfiltered beer
Aragorn:mmmmm... that tastes pretty good! LET THIS BE THE BEGENING OF THE FIFTH AGE!!!
crowd:huzzah!!!

@ Bar-en

Ummm I am not sure if your question was answered or not but I will put what I do know in as well

The First Age was ended with the destruction of Beleriand and the final defeat of Morgoth. Then most of the Noldor returned to the West as well as many of the Sindar.

The Second age Was ended by the first overthrow of Sauron... The Third Age was ended by the War of the Ring ( or the defeat of Sauron) But the Fourth age Didn't actually start until Elrond crossed the sea.

As to what age it went to I have no IDEA...

Thanks, guys



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