Tolkien never discusses in any great detail the ages of the world after the War of the Ring, other than to wrap up events concerning the members of the Fellowship and the Ringbearers. Although he did start a new book, The New Shadow, it was not to be an epic or a major chronicle in Middle-earth history, but simply a period piece, a smaller-scale thriller set in Fourth Age Gondor after the death of King Elessar.
After the War of the Ring, the world became primarily under the dominion of men. The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Ages, unless I am mistaken, were all ages of Mannish advancement and power. We are, supposedly, now in the Seventh Age of the World (look no further than the name of the BDer who posted before me on this thread [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] ).
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