Timeline/Fourth Age

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Fourth Age
Fo.A. S.R. Events
1 1422 The Fourth Age begins in the reckoning of the Shire.[1] Birth of Eldarion, son of King Elessar and Queen Arwen.[2]
2 1423 Death of Adelard Took.[3] Birth of Frodo Gardner.[4]
4 1425 Birth of Rose Gardner.[4]
6 1427 Will Whitfoot resigns and Samwise is elected Mayor.[5] Merry Gardner born.[4] Peregrin Took marries Diamond of Long Cleeve.[5]
King Elessar issues an edict that Men are not to enter the Drúadan Forest and Shire, and he makes it a Free Land under the protection of the Northern Sceptre.[5]
7 1428 Death of Gaffer Gamgee.[4]
8 1429 Birth of Pippin Gardner.[4]
9 1430 Birth of Faramir Took I son of Peregrin Took.[3] Deaths of Merimac Brandybuck[6] and Vigo Boffin.[7]
10 1431 Birth of Goldilocks Gardner.[4] Death of Odovacar Bolger.[8]
11 1432 Death of the Saradoc Brandybuck.[6] Meriadoc becomes Master of Buckland and great gifts are sent to him by King Éomer and Lady Éowyn of Ithilien.[5] Birth of Hamfast Gardner.[4]
12 1433 Birth of Daisy Gardner.[4]
13 1434 Death of Paladin Took II.[3] Peregrin Took becomes the Thain and King Elessar makes the Thain, the Master of Buckland and the Mayor to be Counsellors of the North-kingdom.[5] Samwise elected Mayor for the second time.[5]
14 1435 Death of Olo Proudfoot.[9]Birth of Primrose Gardner.[4]
15 1436 King Elessar rides north and dwells for a while in Annúminas by Lake Evendim. He comes to the Brandywine Bridge, and there greets his friends. He gives the Star of the Dúnedain to Master Samwise, and Elanor is made a maid of honour to Queen Arwen.[5]
Death of Glóin.[10] Birth of Bilbo Gardner.[4]
17 1438 Birth of Ruby Gardner.[4]
19 1440 Birth of Robin Gardner.[4] Death of Farmer Cotton.[4]
20 1441 Samwise elected Mayor for the third time.[5] Legolas brought south Elves out of Greenwood, and they dwelt in Ithilien, and it became once again the "fairest country in all the westlands."[11][12]
21 1442 Samwise, Rose and Elanor ride to Gondor; Master Tolman Cotton acts as deputy Mayor.[5]Birth of Tolman Gardner.[4]
22 1443 Samwise, Rose and Elanor leave Gondor.[5] Death of Filibert Bolger.[8]
27 1448 Samwise elected Mayor for the fourth time.[5]
30 1451 Elanor Gardner weds Fastred of Greenholm on the Far Downs.[5]
31 1452 The Westmarch becomes a part of the Shire by the gift of the King. Many hobbits move to it.[5]
33 1454 Birth of Elfstan Fairbairn son of Fastred and Elanor.[5]
34 1455 Death of Imrahil. Elphir becomes Prince of Dol Amroth.[13]
Fastred and Elanor make their dwelling at Undertowers on the Tower Hills, where their descendants, the Fairbairns of the Towers, dwell for many generations.[5]
Samwise elected Mayor for the fifth time. At his request the Thain makes Fastred Warden of Westmarch.[5]
41 1462 Birth of Holfast Gardner.[4]
Samwise elected Mayor for the sixth time.[5]
42 1463 Faramir Took I weds Goldilocks Gardner.[5]
48 1469 Samwise becomes Mayor for seventh and final time.[5]
55 1476 Samwise Gamgee ends his seventh and last term as Mayor of Michel Delving.[5]
61 1482 Death of Rose Gamgee on Midyear's Day.[5]
On 22 September Samwise rides out from Bag End and he comes to the Tower Hills, where he is last seen by Elanor. He gives her the Red Book afterwards kept by the Fairbairns. Samwise passes the Towers, goes to the Grey Havens and passes over the Sea, last of the Ring-bearers.[5]
63 1484 Peregrin Took commissions a copy of the original Red Book of the Periannath, later known as the Thain's Book, at the request of King Elessar. Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin depart from the Shire and travel south carrying the book. Faramir Took I succeeds his father Peregrin as Thain of the Shire. Meriadoc comes to Edoras and is with King Éomer before he dies in the autumn. Meriadoc and Peregrin come to Gondor and pass what short years are left to them in that realm, until they die and are laid in Rath Dínen among the great of Gondor.[5]
Elfwine becomes King of Rohan.[14]
67 1488 Death of Prince Elphir. Alphros becomes Prince of Dol Amroth.[15]
80 1501 Birth of Harding of the Hill (Harding Gardner), Samwise Gamgee's great-grandson and the last head of the Gardner Family named in the histories.[4]
82 1503 Death of Faramir.[16] Elboron becomes Prince of Ithilien and Steward of the Reunited Kingdom.[13]
91 1512 Death of Dwalin at 340 years of age.[10]
95 1516 Death of Alphros.[15]
120 1541 1 March: King Elessar dies. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin are set beside the bed of the great king. Eldarion becomes King of the Reunited Kingdom.[5]
Legolas builds a grey ship in Ithilien, and with Gimli sails down Anduin and so over the Sea. End in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring.[5]
121 1542 Death of Arwen Undómiel in Lórien.[17]
171 1592 A copy of the Thain's Book is completed in Minas Tirith by Findegil, the King's Writer; probably commissioned by an unnamed great-grandson of Peregrin Took. The copy is sent to the Shire, where it is kept in the library at Great Smials.[18]
After 171 After 1592 Durin VII is born, grows to adulthood, and retakes Khazad-dûm for the Dwarves of Durin's Folk.[10]
185 1606 Death of Harding of the Hill.[19]:115
210 1631 Possible death date of Borlas' wife.[20]
217 1638 Possible date when Berelach, Beregond's grandson, was given a high command, causing his visits to Pen-arduin to see his father to become short and not very often.[21]
220 1641 Possible date for when Herumor's dark cult was active in Gondor;[22] the mysterious disappearance of a few Shipmen and a small vessel of the King's Ships;[22] Berelach's April visit to Pen-arduin;[22] Borlas' later discussion with Saelon about the nature of evil;[22] the discovery and overthrow of Herumor's dark cult.[23] About this time, Eldarion's reign as High King comes to an end.[24]
Unknown Celeborn, Círdan, and any other Elves in Middle-earth who remember the First Age depart the Grey Havens on the Last Ship.[25]

References

  1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Chief Days from the Fall of Barad-dûr to the End of the Third Age"
  2. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Carl F. Hostetter (ed.), The Nature of Middle-earth, "Part One. Time and Ageing: XI. Ageing of Elves", p. 78
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Took of Great Smials"
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "The Longfather-tree of Master Samwise"
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "Later Events Concerning the Members of the Fellowship of the Ring"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Brandybuck of Buckland"
  7. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Boffin of the Yale"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Bolger of Budgeford"
  9. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix C, "Baggins of Hobbiton"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
  11. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Field of Cormallen"
  12. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VII. The Heirs of Elendil", p. 221
  14. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The House of Eorl"
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VII. The Heirs of Elendil", p 223
  16. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "The Realms in Exile", "The Southern Line: Heirs of Anarion"
  17. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"
  18. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "Prologue", "Note on the Shire Records"
  19. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "III. The Family Trees"
  20. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "XVI. The New Shadow", p. 421, Note 14
  21. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "XVI. The New Shadow" pp. 416-17
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "XVI. The New Shadow", p. 420
  23. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 256, (dated 13 May 1964)
  24. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 338, (dated 6 June 1972)
  25. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "Prologue", "Note on the Shire Records"


Preceded by:
Third Age		Fourth Age
Fo.A. 1 - unknown		Followed by:
Fifth Age


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