this must be asked a lot, but which age are we in now? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

04-04-2003, 10:30 PM

I heard one person say that a new age began when a dark lord was overthrown... so would that mean that we are in the 6th age or somethin?

hobbitlass · 04-05-2003, 12:53 AM

Good point, but whom were overthrown in the 4th and 5th ages?

Noxomanus · 04-05-2003, 03:58 AM

maybe the Romans and the Spanish empire.....but i really dunno

Narya · 04-05-2003, 04:12 AM

The shapes of the world in the 4th time age are diffrent from those in our time.
And first of all the realm of Gondor and Arnor had to disappere or develop and change so that it would be like any realm in our real history.
Maybe this fictionall historical period of Middle Earth takes place in between two "real" periods in our history and we have to find out between which two this could be.

Bruce MacCulloch · 04-05-2003, 07:41 AM

Professor Tolkien reckoned that we were in the Sixth or the Seventh Age. In a footnote to a letter to Rhone Beare, he wrote concerning the "gap" between the events of his mythology and our current era:

Quote:

I imagine the gap to be about 6000 years : that is we are now at the end of the Fifth Age, if the Ages were of about the same length as S.A. and T.A. But they have, I think, quickened; and I imagine we are actually at the end of the Sixth Age, or in the Seventh.

The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien, letter 211

[ April 05, 2003: Message edited by: Bruce MacCulloch ]

04-05-2003, 08:25 AM

Possibly the seventh, eh?

sorry to cross the streams, but I couldn't help but notice that there are seven Ages in Robert Jordan's bookseries... maybe if we are in the 7th there might be a largescale end to our age, another breaking, and it will all start over.

Child of the 7th Age · 04-05-2003, 11:36 AM

Comes creeping in the back door. As you can see for my moniker, I vote for the 7th age.

I took this name after I read that footnote in Tolkien's Letters.

sharon

04-04-2003, 10:30 PM	#1
Everborn Guest Posts: n/a	this must be asked a lot, but which age are we in now? I heard one person say that a new age began when a dark lord was overthrown... so would that mean that we are in the 6th age or somethin?

04-05-2003, 12:53 AM	#2
hobbitlass Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: next to the fire keeping warm Posts: 471	Good point, but whom were overthrown in the 4th and 5th ages? __________________ Just because a person has the right to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

04-05-2003, 03:58 AM	#3
Noxomanus Wight Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 233	maybe the Romans and the Spanish empire.....but i really dunno __________________ Nothing is evil in the beginning,even Sauron wasn't

04-05-2003, 04:12 AM	#4
Narya Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: not here... floating down the Liffey Posts: 124	The shapes of the world in the 4th time age are diffrent from those in our time. And first of all the realm of Gondor and Arnor had to disappere or develop and change so that it would be like any realm in our real history. Maybe this fictionall historical period of Middle Earth takes place in between two "real" periods in our history and we have to find out between which two this could be. __________________ ...for we know the joy of life is the peace* that love can bring* So spoke the wizard in his mountain home.

04-05-2003, 11:36 AM	#7
Child of the 7th Age Spirit of the Lonely Star Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5,133	Comes creeping in the back door. As you can see for my moniker, I vote for the 7th age. I took this name after I read that footnote in Tolkien's Letters. sharon __________________ Multitasking women are never too busy to vote.

04-05-2003, 08:25 AM	#6
Everborn Guest Posts: n/a	Possibly the seventh, eh? sorry to cross the streams, but I couldn't help but notice that there are seven Ages in Robert Jordan's bookseries... maybe if we are in the 7th there might be a largescale end to our age, another breaking, and it will all start over.