When does one age in M:E end and the next begin?

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PippinTook Billeh <3

When does one age in M:E end and the next begin?

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 😛

RaventheOnly GheutWunOlathWholSsussun

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

PippinTook Billeh <3

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

RaventheOnly GheutWunOlathWholSsussun

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.

PippinTook Billeh <3

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

OrliNElijahsGrl A Proud Ringer

Oooh we are in the seventh age? really?

PippinTook Billeh <3

That's what I read.

OrliNElijahsGrl A Proud Ringer

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

PippinTook Billeh <3

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

Bar-en-Danwedh House of Ransom

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

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

Aragorn:Sauron 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!!!

PippinTook Billeh <3

😂 @ Bar-en 😛

Aurora Princess

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... ❌

Exabyte Senior Member

Originally posted by OrliNElijahsGrl
Oooh we are in the seventh age? really?

Tolkien explained in a letter that the War of the Ring was about ?10 000 (not sure if I remembered the number correctly 😮) years ago and that the Ages tended to grow shorter and shorter, so that now we're living in the "sixth" or rather the "beginning of the seventh" age;
And some people decided to ignore the part with "beginning" and worked out a brilliant and detailed calender according to which we are now living in the 132th lóa of the 14th yén of the Seventh Age of Middle-earth 😉

Middle-earth Ages are not to be mixed up with the Valinorean Ages though; one Valinorean Age (thats how the time was counted before the Sun and the Moon were made) is 100 Valinorean Years; one such Year is about ten times as long as one of our Sun Years though ^^ so one Valinorean Age is *about* 1000 years long.

PippinTook Billeh <3

Thanks, guys 😛

HEY!!! AURORA!!! I haven't seen you in a LONG time!!! 😍