Fourth Age
From Tolkien Gateway
| History of Arda | ||
|---|---|---|
| Before the Creation | ||
| Before the Ages | ||
| Days before days | ||
| Years of the Trees (up to Y.T. 1050) | ||
| Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar | ||
| First Age (begins in Y.T. 1050 and overlaps with the Years of the Trees up to Y.T. 1500) - Years of the Sun begin in F.A. 1 | ||
| Second Age - Arda made round in S.A. 3319 | ||
| Third Age | ||
| Fourth Age | ||
| Later Ages (up to present day) | ||
| End of Arda | ||
| Timeline of Arda (See: Round World version of the Silmarillion for a later conception of Tolkien's cosmology) | ||
The Fourth Age began after Sauron was finally defeated, when his Ruling Ring was destroyed, and the Elves left Middle-earth for the Uttermost West.
Tolkien's writing does not provide information on more than the first few centuries of this age, so it is not known when it ended, if it ever did.
This age was (presumably) marked by the recovery of the Númenorean kingdoms in exile (Arnor and Gondor), the final ascent of
