Timeline: Difference between revisions

From Tolkien Gateway
mNo edit summary
(Added calculations for Years of the Trees)
Line 15: Line 15:


== [[Years of the Trees]] Begin ==
== [[Years of the Trees]] Begin ==
''1. According to the reckoning by the Trees''
:12 hours (a full flowering of both Trees) = 1 day
:1000 days (12,000 hours) = 1 year
:100 years = 1 age of the Valar
''2. Relation of the reckoning by the Trees to the reckoning by the Sun''
:1 hour of the Trees = 7 hours of our time
:1 day of the Trees = (7 x 12) 84 hours of our time
:1 year of the Trees = (7 x 12,000) 84,000 hours of our time
There are (365.25 x 24) 8766 hours in a Sun Year, and thus:
:1 year of the Trees = (84,000 / 8766) 9.5824777549623545516769336071184 Sun Years


* [[YOTT 1000|1000]] [[Varda]] creates the stars<br>
* [[YOTT 1000|1000]] [[Varda]] creates the stars<br>

Revision as of 23:51, 27 July 2007

Sources

Years of the Lamps

"After ages of labour beyond knowledge or reckoning in the great halls of the Valar descended into Arda in the beginning of its being, and they began there their labour fore-ordained for the shaping of its lands and its waters, even from the foundations to the highest towers of the Air."
The Annals of Aman

Years of the Trees Begin

1. According to the reckoning by the Trees

12 hours (a full flowering of both Trees) = 1 day
1000 days (12,000 hours) = 1 year
100 years = 1 age of the Valar

2. Relation of the reckoning by the Trees to the reckoning by the Sun

1 hour of the Trees = 7 hours of our time
1 day of the Trees = (7 x 12) 84 hours of our time
1 year of the Trees = (7 x 12,000) 84,000 hours of our time

There are (365.25 x 24) 8766 hours in a Sun Year, and thus:

1 year of the Trees = (84,000 / 8766) 9.5824777549623545516769336071184 Sun Years

The First Age

The Second Age

The Third Age

The Fourth Age