Let's reconcile all the ideas a bit. What ever we have read or not read about the Dagro Dagorath, it was all in phrophecy. Even when Eriol was to take a role in the great second march of the Elves, that would not be the begining of the Dagorath because the march was crused and would not have the result the elves hoped for.
So, if we speak of the Dagorath we speak still of an event in (hopfully) fare the future.
And that was exactly so, because Tolkien whished for his story to take place in our own legendary past. As we can see many legends of old give an acount of the End of the world, which for the reporters of that legend lay still in the future (take the Ragnarök of the nordic Godnesses as an example). And also Tolkiens legends give hints of that future event, even the late ones as we can see in The Unfinished Tales.
Respectfully
Findegil
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