Ages of Awakening

The Ages of Awakening,The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth, Of Dwarves and Men commonly referred to simply as the Ages, were large periods of time in the history of Arda. This division was made by the Wise and loremasters of the races of the Children of Ilúvatar, according to particularly important historical events such as the overthrow of a Dark Lord.
J.R.R. Tolkien also called these the Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. X: Morgoth's Ring, The Annals of Aman
There were four recorded Ages in Arda's history:
* The First Age began with the Awakening of the Elves and ended with the Downfall of Angband, thus being reckoned in the Years of the Trees and then, during its last six centuries, in the Years of the Sun.The Nature of Middle-earth, I: "Time and Ageing", XVII: "Generational Schemes", Text 2The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B
* The Second Age began after the War of Wrath and ended with the first defeat of Sauron in the War of the Last Alliance.
* The Third Age began after the War of the Last Alliance and ended with the ultimate defeat of Sauron in the War of the Ring.
* The Fourth Age was the last recorded Age that began after 29 September in TA 3021 with the departure of the Ring-bearers.
== Further future ==
In Letter 211, written October 14, 1958, Tolkien mentioned that he imagined that the events of The Lord of the Rings had happened approximately six thousand years earlier.The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 211 (to Rhona Beare)
However, in a 1960 text called The Awaking of the Quendi published posthumously in The Nature of Middle-earth, Tolkien explicitly called the year 1960 AD (the year in which he was writing the text) as the year 1960 of the Seventh Age. In that context Tolkien thus connected the beginning of the Seventh Age with the incarnation of Ilúvatar as Jesus Christ in 1 AD, according to the real-world Anno Domini reckoning of the Catholic Church. Tolkien also went on to say that the gap between the year 1960 of the Seventh Age and YS 310 of the First Age was 16,000 years, so the average duration of the Fourth through Sixth Ages would be approximately 2,430 solar years.The Nature of Middle-earth, I: "Time and Ageing", VI: "The Awaking of the Quendi"
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Eeue van Ontwaking
Arabic 	عصور الصحوة
Bulgarian 	Епохи на пробуждането
Chinese 	觉醒时代
Croatian 	Doba buđenja
Dutch 	Eeuwen van ontwaken
Estonian 	Ärkamise ajastud
Finnish 	Heräämisen aikakaudet
French 	Les âges de l'éveil
German 	Zeitalter des Erwachens
Hawaiian 	Nā makahiki o ke ala ʻana
Hebrew 	עידן התעוררות
Hungarian 	Az ébredés korszakai
Indonesian 	Zaman Kebangkitan
Irish 	Aois na Múscail
Italian 	Le età del risveglio
Japanese 	覚醒の時代
Korean 	각성의 시대
Mongolian 	Сэрсэн эрин үе
Persian 	دوران بیداری
Polish 	Wieki przebudzenia
Portuguese 	Eras do Despertar
Romanian 	Epocile Trezirii
Russian 	Эпоха пробуждения
Scottish Gaelic 	Aoisean dùisg
Sinhalese 	පිබිදීමේ යුගය
Spanish 	Eras del despertar
Swahili 	Zama za Uamsho
Thai 	ยุคแห่งการตื่นรู้
Turkish 	Uyanış Çağları
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Століття пробудження
Vietnamese 	Thời đại thức tỉnh
Welsh 	Oesoedd y Deffroad
== References ==
Category:Eras
Category:Time
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