To Huinesoron

[Arvegil145]

Because I do, from the 1964 BBC interview:

The moons, I think, finally the moons and the suns have worked out according to what they were in this part of the world in 1942 actually. They must have something where they... I mean one... I couldn’t... I’m not good enough mathematician or astronomer to work out where they might have been seven thousand, eight thousand years ago. But as long as they correspond to some real configuration I thought it was good enough. Moons are much more tricky to deal with than suns of course, but in the whole, I don’t think the moon is full or rises in the wrong place...

All of this is referring of course to the LOTR.

So perhaps '7-8,000 years ago' could be a sufficient guideline for the c. 1968+ Silvan Elves and Silvan Elvish statement of there being as many years between our time and the War of the Ring as there is between the end of the First Age and the separation of the Nandor at Hithaeglir.



P.S. Sorry for name-dropping you in the title - but I figured I would've waited another year or more if I posted this in the usual thread.