Seven Ages - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

06-17-2003, 08:14 PM

I am going back on myself here. I heard some where that at least six thousand years have passed since the beginning of the Fourth Age. That would place it right around 4000 B.C then during the next thousand years the human race fell into a sort of Dark Age and men forgot all that was known prior. Then around 3100 B.C, with the arise of structured civilization (archaeological evidence)the Fifth Age would have been ushered in. For the next three and a half milennia Men learned again the ancient arts of days gone by. Then with the Fall of Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages the Sixth Age arose and illuminated the complexity of the minds of the Third and start of the Fourth Age and new technologies arose to change the world forever thus came the Renaissance and the Seventh Age which we are in the midst of even now. As you can see I have thought this over since my last post. I think that this is a little more logical than littlemanpoet's, whose system after the Fourth Age are in intervals of centuries and even decades.

06-17-2003, 08:14 PM	#1
-Hallanárë- Guest Posts: n/a	I am going back on myself here. I heard some where that at least six thousand years have passed since the beginning of the Fourth Age. That would place it right around 4000 B.C then during the next thousand years the human race fell into a sort of Dark Age and men forgot all that was known prior. Then around 3100 B.C, with the arise of structured civilization (archaeological evidence)the Fifth Age would have been ushered in. For the next three and a half milennia Men learned again the ancient arts of days gone by. Then with the Fall of Rome and the beginning of the Middle Ages the Sixth Age arose and illuminated the complexity of the minds of the Third and start of the Fourth Age and new technologies arose to change the world forever thus came the Renaissance and the Seventh Age which we are in the midst of even now. As you can see I have thought this over since my last post. I think that this is a little more logical than littlemanpoet's, whose system after the Fourth Age are in intervals of centuries and even decades.