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The Third Age lasted for 3021 years, beginning with the defeat of Sauron at the hands of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men following the downfall of Númenor, and ending with the War of the Ring and final defeat of Sauron, the events narrated in The Lord of the Rings. Virtually the entire history of the Third Age takes place in Middle-earth.
Middle-earth is the main continent of Earth (Arda) in an imaginary period of the past, ending with Tolkien's Third Age, about 6,000 years ago. [ T 1 ] Tolkien's tales of Middle-earth mostly focus on the north-west of the continent.
Pezzini sees Arda's decline from its First Age "filled with Joy and Light" down to its "Twilight" Third Age as echoing the classical theme. [6] More specifically, Plato 's tale of decline in Kritias from the "decadent magnificence" of Atlantis to the humdrum life of Athens is "unambiguously and intimately" linked to Tolkien's Númenor , since ...
In the First Age, the Elves lived in Beleriand. In the First and Second Ages, Valinor was across the sea, Belegaer, from Middle-earth, with Númenor in between for most of the Second Age. At the end of the Second Age, Númenor was destroyed and Valinor removed from Arda. [2] The outlines of the continents are purely schematic.
First Age (cont'd) 590: Quenta Silmarillion Elves fight Morgoth in Beleriand Beleriand is destroyed Second Age: 3,441: Akallabêth: Númenor attacks Valinor to gain immortality Númenor is drowned, Arda is remade, Valinor is removed from Arda Third Age: 3,021: Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age (summary of The Lord of the Rings)
The Earth was called Arda. [T 1] Those of the Ainur who felt concern for the Creation entered it, ... [T 4] and Sauron, the Dark Lord of the Third Age, ...
When Arda Güler scored a stunning goal in Turkey’s 3-1 win against Georgia this week ... made him the youngest player to score on his Euro debut at the age of 19 years and 114 days, taking the ...
Whittingham analyses the "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" (published in Morgoth's Ring) as a sometimes hopeful, sometimes despairing look at whether death was given to mortals as a gift or as a punishment in consequence of a fall from grace, and whether Eru has abandoned both Men and Elves to their fate, or will bring about the healing of Arda." [30]