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
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.
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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
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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!!!
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Last edited by Bar-en-Danwedh on Jul 12th, 2004 at 02:25 AM
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.
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.
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When does one age in M:E end and the next begin?
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 
Jul 11th, 2004 10:54 PM
and in comparison to the others in this thread i'm just as clueless ... I should have put "i think" 
Yeah. That makes sense, though....Plus, it's more than I would have known 
) 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;
