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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
also, that Ingwe was Imin's great-grandson.
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Someone's going to have to try and figure out the order of the generational schemes and timelines, if we want to know Tolkien's final position. I think they're
all listed as 'ca. 1959'.
Tolkien gives 14 detailed timelines/generation schemes around Cuivienen:
- One in
The March of the Quendi (ca. 1959)
- Three in
Key Dates (early 1959)
- Two in
Calculation of the Increase of the Quendi (ca. 1959)
- One in
A Generational Scheme (mid 1959)
- Seven(!) in
Generational Schemes (summer 1959)
CH indicates a connection between the final scheme in
Key Dates and the first one in
Calculation..., and the phrasing of
The March... suggests it comes pretty early, so it looks like the
Generational Schemes are Tolkien's final thoughts. In which case
Ingwe is the
24th generation from Imin!
EDIT: One that sneaks under the radar because the pieces are in the wrong order... per
The Numenorean Catastrophe..., Valinor
"should remain a physical landmass (America!)... it would just become an ordinary land...". Which means that, per
The Making of Lembas, lembas is
(unleavened) cornbread!
hS