[Arvegil145]

Evidently I haven't elaborated on what exactly I meant to achieve with my proposal (I'm not completely sure myself), but what I roughly had in my mind was this:

1) For us to adopt the 'Tale of Years' of both the Second, Third and Fourth Ages as per the Appendices (+ as Huinesoron said, maybe including some entries cut from the published Appendices but found in HoME XII) - this is pretty straightforward

2) For us to adopt the Grey Annals + the Tale of Years timeline of the last 6 centuries of the First Age from HoME XI (+ again, some emendations as needed)

3) Maybe add some speculative dates from Fourth Age onwards? - of course, this is much more controversial, but I feel adding a few rough dates after the last entries to the 'Fourth Age timeline' shouldn't be too terrible, if only to convey to the readers that time went on, and things happened after the 'New Shadow', and that in the imaginary world of Tolkien's, 'we still live in the year 1960 (or rather 2024 or something) of the 7th Age'...

4) And finally, which is why I asked Huinesoron to participate in this - to try and keep the old AAm timeline (in the 'flat-world', 9.582:1 SY to VY conception) while attempting to incorporate as much as possible from the NoME and other later texts



I fundamentally disagree, however, that the style found in AAm or GA/ToY (First Age) is incompatible with, say, ToY from the Appendices - after all, even in the Appendices, the years 3018/3019 TA are overflowing with entries/events, even though previous entries might be sparce (because of course these years were far more eventful than any in the TA).

Regardless, I think a timeline is a must for this project - otherwise, how would people even orient themselves temporally, especially given the complexity and literary 'thickness' of our project.


EDIT: In regards to genealogies, they are far simpler than you might think - you just give me the names (not literally, I already know most if not all of them) of characters included in the project, plus their relationships, and I can do it in a jiffy.

EDIT 2: Speaking of orientation, does this project have any ambition towards maps?