Originally posted by Member.
Near the end of the 4th Age, which was nearly 5000 years later, Gondor fell and split into many different states. Rohan fell in the middle of the 5th Age. We are in the 7th Age right now, which started 3000 years before Jesus Christ was born.
No.
Tolkien wrote that the War of the Ring was about 10000 years ago, which means we're in the 6th or rather 7th age because the lenght of the ages became less and less.
The birth of jesus is suggested for the beginning of the 7th age.
Tolkien also said that northwestern middle-earth is supposed to be Europe, but refused this idea later.
In some older versions of the mythology, you hear about Ælfwine from England, which is a part of Eressea at that time
What happened after the war of the Ring?
Well, Aragorn became king over all Gondor and Arnor and parts of Rhûn and Harad, having peace with all the other human races; the slaves of Núrnen are freed; everything goes well for some generations, but the kings of the new kingdom lose more and more power, and people start praying to Sauron and have special Sauronfanclubs... most humans turn towards "evil", nobody trusts each other anymore, and after some more aeons, well, we had some thread about that.
Originally posted by KidRock
i feel like an ass now...sauron sorry when i read your post i thought u were being an ******* and acting sarcastic but i was wrong when i re-read your post...thats intresting how we are in the same world as they were..that would be cool if that was true loland again sorry sauron i read your post the wrong way and i apologize
*hangs head and leaves thread* 😮
its ok lol
lord of the rings was supposedly based on the war, is that true, i know sauron was hitler, and saruman mussolini
I love Tolkien's idea of Middle-earth being where we are today but...doesn't make you feel even the slightest bit embarrassed that we are invovled and living in this world that is SO different to when it was in the 3rd and 4th age?
I mean, I want it to go back to when there was no industry and your biggest worries were whether you had enough wood for the fire!😄
Random piece of trivia: did you know that China and the surrounding area used to call themselves Middle-earth too? (But obviously in their own language) Places all around the world believed that they were the centre and everything revolved around them! That is where Tolkien got part of his idea from for naming it what he did...
YEAH!!!! GO SMODDEN!!! U SAID IT !!!
oh yeah AWSOME MAP ... it really cleared up sum of the hazzy stuff for me !
going back a little... it seems like even though tolkien never wanted LOTR to be an allegory ,I am not really sure why, but , there seems to be a few different allerorical twists ... ( return of the king -Jesus coming back to earth and lots of other biblical things as well as WWII and probaly more .
Originally posted by Lord_Andres
allright here it is, had too make it a bit smaller, file was too big, u will just have too zoom, to see the names better🙂
Originally posted by Jade_Eyes
Human Nature is fragile. We tend to need a belief that we are infinetly important. The center of the universe. Gods greatest creation.How arrogant.
Exactly my opinion