Timeline

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Years of the Lamps

All dates in this section are approximate. Calculated Sun years for the Years of the Lamps and the Trees are rounded to the nearest year.

Years of the Lamps
Valian Year	Calculated Sun Years	Event
Ainulindalë ; The Ainur enter Eä.
1–1499	1-14,363	The First War and the Marring of Arda.
1500	14,373	Tulkas enters Arda and Melkor flees.
1900	18,206	The completion of Arda. The Valar create the Two Lamps and settle at Almaren. Beginning of the Spring of Arda.
3400	32,579	Tulkas weds Nessa. Melkor secretly returns to Arda, raises the Iron Mountains and delves Utumno. This partly blights the Spring of Arda.
3450	33,058	Melkor overthrows the Two Lamps, forming the Seas of Helcar and Ringil. Almaren is destroyed. In order to preserve life on the earth, Yavanna sets most living things into a long sleep. End of the Spring of Arda.
3450–3500	33,058-33,537	The Valar raise the Pelóri and settle in Aman. The Two Trees are grown in Valinor.

Years of the Trees

Years of the Trees
Year of the Trees	Calculated Sun Years	Event
1	1	Yavanna creates the Two Trees amidst the hill of Ezellohar in Valinor. With Telperion's first blooming the new Count of Time begins. Over the many centuries, Melkor sleeps in Utumno. Oromë hunts throughout Middle-earth. Melkor raises the Hithaeglir to hinder his efforts.
1000	9582	The Valar hold council, for Yavanna and Oromë report that Melkor might rise once more in power. They discuss the Children of Ilúvatar. Over the next fifty years, Varda fashions new stars and begins to organize them and those already wrought into constellations. Some time before the waking of the Elves, Aulë secretly creates the 7 Fathers of the Dwarves and their 6 spouses. Ilúvatar adopts them and they are put to sleep.
1050	10,061	Varda forms the Valacirca. The first 144 Elves (Minyar, Tatyar, and Nelyar) awake in Cuiviénen. Melian travels to Beleriand after ascending Taniquetil to see the stars.
1080	10,349	Spies of Melkor discover the Elves and afflict them. It is possible through the torture of Melkor that Orcs are first created.
1085	10,396	Oromë discovers the Elves, and calls them the Eldar. The Eldar are afraid of Oromë and blame him for Melkor's work.
1086	10,406	Oromë returns to Valinor and witnesses to his peers about the Children of Ilúvatar. Oromë returns to the Elves while the Valar consider his message.
1090	10,444	The Valar make war on Melkor in the Battle of the Powers. The earth is shaken. The shores of Beleriand are formed and bays are created on the North. Over the next two years, Melkor is defeated and retreats into Utumno.
1092	10,464	The siege of Utumno begins. The North is desolated and the Sea widened.
1099	10,530	The Battle of the Powers ends as the Valar storm the final defenses of Utumno. Tulkas captures Melkor and binds him with Angainor. Sauron evades capture.
1100	10,540	Melkor is brought back to Valinor, judged and cast into the Halls of Mandos for three Ages of the Valar (300 Valian Years).
1101	10,550	The Valar make council about the protection of the Children of Ilúvatar and decide to bring them to Valinor. Oromë extends this invitation to the Elves.
1102	10,559	The Elves are unwilling to leave Cuiviénen. Oromë invites three Elven ambassadors, Ingwë, Finwë and Elwë to come to Valinor with the hope that they can convince their people to come as well.
1104	10,579	The ambassadors return to Cuiviénen and invite the Elves to return with them to Valinor.
1105	10,588	First Sundering of the Elves at Cuiviénen. The Vanyar led by Ingwë, the Noldor led by Finwë and the Teleri led by Elwë and Olwë. The Avari, led by Morwë and Nurwë, stay in Cuiviénen. The Eldar depart, pass Sea of Helcar and turn west. Some are terrified by the smokes of war and go back.
1115	10,684	Second Sundering of the Elves: The Eldar host passes Greenwood the Great and comes to the River Anduin. Some Eldar, afterwards known as Lindar, wish to stay there. Terrified by the Hithaeglir, a part of them go south led by Lenwë.
1125	10,780	The Vanyar and Noldor enter Beleriand; the foremost of them pass Sirion and reach the shores. Oromë goes to Aman for counsel.
1128	10,808	The unwilling Teleri also come to Beleriand and dwell east of Gelion. Elwë keeps friendship with Finwë and the Noldor to the west.
1130	10,828	Elwë, returning from a meeting with Finwë, meets Melian in Nan Elmoth. They fall into a trance.
1132	10,847	Ulmo brings an island to the Bay of Balar. The Vanyar and Noldor forget their fear for the Sea and embark upon it while the Teleri stay in Beleriand to look for Elwë. While departing, the island breaks and leaves the Isle of Balar behind. After learning of the departure of the Vanyar and Noldor, Olwë leads some Teleri to the western shores where they meet Ossë and Uinen.
1133	10,856	The Vanyar and Noldor enter Valinor and build Eldamar. The Valar open the rift Calacirya in Pelóri so that the Light of Valinor reaches Eldamar. The Elves begin the building of Tirion on the hill Túna inside Calacirya.
1140	10,923	The Vanyar and Noldor found Tirion and Mindon Eldaliéva. Some Vanyar yearn for the Trees and move closer to Valinor.
1142	10,943	Yavanna gives the Noldor the White Tree.
1149	11,010	Finwë prays to Ulmo to bring the Teleri to Valinor. However, Ossë is grieved to lose the Teleri and persuades some to stay with him in Beleriand. These are called the Falathrim afterwards. Círdan of the Falathrim establishes the havens of Brithombar and Eglarest. Ossë teaches them shipcraft.
1150	11,019	Olwë and the most part of the Teleri leave Beleriand on Tol Eressëa. The rest of the Teleri remain to search for Elwë and are named the Eglath.
1151	11,029	Ossë convinces Ulmo to halt Tol Eressëa outside the Bay of Eldamar. The Teleri who choose to remain on the island are afterwards named the Falmari.
1152	11,038	Elwë and Melian awaken from their trance. Elwë, now silver-haired, becomes the King of the Elves in Beleriand.
1161	11,125	Ossë teaches the Teleri how to build ships. They leave Tol Eressëa and come to Valinor.
1162	11,134	The Teleri found Alqualondë with the help of Finwë.
1165	11,163	The Vanyar depart from Tirion to live in Taniquetil with the Valar. The Noldor and Teleri remain in Tirion and the surrounding areas.
1169	11,201	Birth of Fëanor, son of Finwë and Míriel. Aulë teaches the Noldor smithying and mining. Rúmil of Tirion makes the Sarati and possibly writes the Ainulindalë.
1170	11,211	Death of Míriel Serindë.
1172	11,230	The Doom of Manwë is erected.
1185	11,355	Finwë weds Indis.
1190	11,403	Birth of Fingolfin in Valinor.
1200	11,498	Second Age of the Chaining of Melkor. Birth of Lúthien in Neldoreth.
1230	11,786	Birth of Finarfin in Valinor.
1250	11,978	Fëanor creates the Tengwar. Dwarves, known to the Elves as Naugrim, enter Beleriand and meet the Sindar.
1280	12,265	Finarfin weds Eärwen.
1300	12,457	Third Age of the Chaining of Melkor. The births of Turgon and Finrod in Valinor. The Dwarves of Belegost and the Sindar begin the building of Menegroth in Doriath. The Dwarves are paid with knowledge from Melian and with many pearls, including Nimphelos. Daeron creates the Certhas Daeron.
1330	12,744	Orcs are first seen in Beleriand. The Dwarves make weapons for the Sindar.
1350	12,936	Denethor leads some of the Nandor west into Beleriand and befriends Thingol. They settle in Ossiriand. Daeron betters the Cirth, which are adopted by the Dwarves and made known east of the Blue Mountains.
1362	13,051	Births of Galadriel and Aredhel in Valinor.
1400	13,415	Melkor is released from bondage.
1410	13,511	Melkor befriends the Noldor.
1449	13,884	Fëanor, having invented the substance Silima, begins constructing the Silmarils,
1450	13,894	Fëanor completes the Silmarils. He puts the Light of the Trees in them and Varda hallows them. For the next 20 years, Melkor begins spreading strife and urging the need for weapons. Fëanor expresses his desire to reject the Valar and return to Middle Earth.
1490	14,277	Finwë summons Fëanor to a council meeting, where he threatens Fingolfin with his sword. The Valar then exile Fëanor to Formenos for 12 years. He takes his wife and seven sons. Finwë follows him in exile.
1492	14,296	Melkor visits Fëanor in Formenor, but he repels him. Finwë then warns the Valar, who pursue Melkor. Melkor flees and finds Ungoliant in Avathar.
1495	14,325	Fëanor is summoned by Manwë to Taniquetil where he and Fingolfin reconcile. Ungoliant destroys the Two Trees. Melkor kills Finwë in Formenos and steals the Silmarils. Fëanor names him Morgoth. He and his sons swear the Oath of Fëanor. They begin a rebellion of the Noldor against the Valar and go to Alqualondë where they slay the Teleri and steal their swanships. This begins the Flight of the Noldor. Melkor and Ungoliant flee to Beleriand where Ungoliant threatens him. Melkor calls Balrogs to his aid and they drive Ungoliant away. Melkor, now known as Morgoth, stays in Angband and raises the peaks of Thangorodrim.
1496	14,335	Mandos appears before the Noldor and speaks the Doom of Mandos. Finarfin and some of his people repent and return to Valinor. Finrod, son of Finarfin, becomes the leader of his father's remaining people and they follow Fëanor.
1497	14,344	The First Battle of Beleriand. Death of Denethor. Besiegement of the Havens of the Falas. Thingol withdraws his people and Melian sets the Girdle of Melian around Doriath. The Laiquendi become hidden and take no other king. The Noldor arrive at the Helcaraxë. Fëanor and his people betray Fingolfin and sail to Beleriand. Burning of the ships at Losgar. The Dagor-nuin-Giliath ("Battle-under-Stars"). Gothmog mortally wounds Fëanor, who is rescued by his sons before dying near Thangorodrim. Maedhros meets with Morgoth under a false truce and is captured.
1498	14,354	Maedhros is chained to the Thangorodrim. The Noldor make a great camp at Mithrim.
1500	14,373	The Creation of the Moon and the Sun. The host of the Noldor, led by Fingolfin, finishes crossing the Helcaraxë and enters Beleriand. The Battle of the Lammoth and death of Argon. The Moon rises seven times, after which the Sun follows.

The First Age

See: Timeline/First Age

The Second Age

See: Timeline/Second Age

The Third Age

See: Timeline/Third Age

The Fourth Age

See: Timeline/Fourth Age

See also

• Timeline of Frodo Baggins
• Timeline of Aragorn

References

• The Tale of Years (The Lord of the Rings)
• The Annals of Aman (Morgoth's Ring)
• The Grey Annals (The War of the Jewels)
• The Silmarillion
• Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth