Tolkien's final First Age timeline

[Arvegil145]

Originally Posted by Huinesoron

Okay! I've gone back and redone all of the calculations, and reassembled the Timeline for the third time.

• There may still be some off-by-one errors, but they shouldn't carry through to other dates (I calculated everything at once).
• Men and Dwarves are in. Galadriel and Aredhel are still out.
• I've tried to explain my reasoning a bit better in some of the notes.
• Every item is footnoted to show which source it comes from. Lower number footnotes are later sources.

I am quite pleased to have worked out a solution to the whole Men/Utumno issue. It doesn't match the Reddit version, but I believe it holds up as a plausible "Final Timeline".

hS

Yay! I like your timeline better than the Reddit one for what it's worth!

However, the date of the Awakening of Men is flaring up my OCD - are you sure you can't move it up to (solar year) 1800? It would also move it to the exact middle of VY 862 (SY 72).

Not that I have any rational argument or anything...


Also, shouldn't Fingolfin's arrival to Middle-earth be in 5476 instead of 5474? Given what you said about the 3 solar years exile of the Noldor across Helcaraxe, with Feanor taking only 1 year to arrive at Losgar?

And shouldn't the defeat of Morgoth be 600 years after the coming of Fingolfin? Right now it's 6073 (which is 599 years after the arrival of Fingolfin in your current scheme).


Again, sorry for nitpicking.



EDIT: A random question - do you think that Feanor's AAm date of birth needs revising in the context of the Shibboleth given that in the latter he is at least somewhat grown up by the time of Miriel's death?