Tolkien's final First Age timeline

[Huinesoron]

We have a timeline!

Running on Javascript on a section of my website that I really need to fix up, the Interactive Timeline uses 20 questions to fill out the entire timeline from the Awakening to the Fall of Angband. Pick your preferred answers, click the big friendly button, and (hopefully!) watch your own personalised Tale of Years scroll into existence.

The default settings are the latest (chronologically) even when I'd prefer a different answer; or when there is no chronology, I've picked the most conservative/logical option. It actually produces a timeline that hangs together! I'm sure other options would too, but I'm pleased this one does.

If there are other points where you think I need to be asking a question, let me know; the calculations are all strung together, so it's relatively easy to sneak a new one in. And obviously if you find an error, say something!

Excluded from this version are Celeborn (his only possible birth-year depends on a specific timeline which is not the default) and Finduilas (who per Shibboleth was born in Beleriand; I'll probably adopt the 272 Bel. date from Tolkien Gateway but want to look at the sources myself first), and I guess Gil-Galad. Oh, and Orodreth's marriage - his wife is a Sinda, so the normal age of marriage in Aman and time before first child don't apply. I don't know that I can work his marriage in (though AAm "20 VY" before 272 Bel. is 80 Bel., between the building of Minas Tirith and Nargothrond - a perfectly reasonable date for his wedding).

hS