Timeline

First Music	Days before days	Years of the Trees		Years of the Sun					Second Music
	V.Y. 1 – 3500	Y.T. 1 – 1500	Y.T. 1050 – Y.S. 590		S.A. 1 – 3441	T.A. 1 – 3021	F.A. 1 – c. 2500^[1]^[2]	Up to present day^[3]^[4]
	Days before days	Years of the Trees	First Age		Second Age	Third Age	Fourth Age	Later Ages
	Key events	Key events	Key events		Key events	Key events	Key events	Key events
	The Valar and Maiar enter Arda The First War and the Marring of Arda The Spring of Arda Melkor raises the Iron Mountains and delves Utumno The Two Lamps are destroyed The separation of Aman from Middle-earth; foundation of Valinor	Yavanna grows the Two Trees in Valinor Aulë creates the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves Manwë and Yavanna devise the Eagles and the Ents respectively Varda fashions new Stars and puts the Valacirca in the North The Darkening of Valinor	The Awakening of the Elves by Cuiviénen and the Great March of the Eldar The Battle of the Powers and the Chaining of Melkor Fëanor creates the Silmarils The War of the Great Jewels The Awakening of Men in Hildórien The final defeat of Morgoth in the War of Wrath		The Dúnedain settle on the isle of Númenor The Rings of Power are forged and distributed The appearance of the Nazgûl The Downfall of Númenor and the Changing of the World Arnor and Gondor are founded in Middle-earth The War of the Last Alliance	The One Ring is lost in the waters of Anduin The destruction of the Kingdom of Arnor The Line of Kings in Gondor breaks Sauron is defeated in the War of the Ring The Three Rings lost their powers forever	The beginning of the Dominion of Men in Middle-earth The Thain's Book is commissioned by King Elessar The death of King Elessar and the ascension of his son Eldarion Durin VII is born and retakes Khazad-dûm for Durin's Folk The Last Ship of the Elves sails into the West	The Fifth Age The Sixth Age The Seventh Age The Dagor Dagorath and the End of the World
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References

↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VIII. The Tale of Years of the Third Age", pp. 244-5: "Of Eldarion son of Elessar it was foretold that he should rule a great realm, and that it should endure for a hundred generations of Men after him, that is until a new age brought in again new things…"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter (ed.), “Part One. Time and Ageing: VI. The Awaking of the Quendi,” in The Nature of Middle-earth (HarperCollins, 2021) , Notes, Note 30, p. 43
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 211, (dated 14 October 1958), footnote, p. 283
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter (ed.), “Part One. Time and Ageing: VI. The Awaking of the Quendi,” in The Nature of Middle-earth (HarperCollins, 2021) , p. 39

[1] J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VIII. The Tale of Years of the Third Age", pp. 244-5: "Of Eldarion son of Elessar it was foretold that he should rule a great realm, and that it should endure for a hundred generations of Men after him, that is until a new age brought in again new things…"

[2] J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter (ed.), “Part One. Time and Ageing: VI. The Awaking of the Quendi,” in The Nature of Middle-earth (HarperCollins, 2021) , Notes, Note 30, p. 43

[3] J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 211, (dated 14 October 1958), footnote, p. 283

[4] J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter (ed.), “Part One. Time and Ageing: VI. The Awaking of the Quendi,” in The Nature of Middle-earth (HarperCollins, 2021) , p. 39

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