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Originally Posted by Arvegil145
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
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On reflection, this is actually *really easy* (in principle): you just have to ignore 2 statements. The first is that there were 3100 years between the arrival in Aman and the end of the First Age; the second is that the Trees died in 888.
Ignore those, and you can just put AAm, XIII.1, XIII.3, VII, and AAm together in order. Use the VY used when each one was written, calculate out a SY date for everything, and then convert into either XIII.1 or AAm VYs (ie, 144 or 9.58 SY).
This approach takes basically every other decision out of play: about the only one left is whether the March begins 20 or 288 SY after the Debate (ie, do you use the relative or actual dating in XIII.3).
If that's of any interest to you, I can pull together a calculation spreadsheet and give you "aligned dates" for the whole period in a day or two. Even if you don't end up using it, I'm not precious about spreadsheets.
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It was less than 1 day. This calculator takes a date in VY/SY format, and when that date is counting from, and outputs a running count of "Years of Arda", plus converting that date into various systems. Edit the columns left of the yellow line; the columns in blue are running the calculations. Elessar dies in the 169,055th year of the world's existence. ^_^
If you want to make use of it, you should be able to make a copy of the spreadsheet on your own Google drive (and maybe download a copy, I'm not sure). As it's quite fragile, I'm keeping the original as view-only so it doesn't break.
Fun fact: when the AAm timescale for the ages before the Trees is used, the dates used in NoME XIII.3 & VII require the Days of Bliss to begin before the world was created.
hS