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THE TALE OF YEARS

(Chronology of the Westlands)

The First Age ended with the Great Battle, in which the Host of Valinor broke Thangorodrioth Then most of the Noldor returned into the Far West51 and dwelt in Eressea within sight of Valinor; and many of the Sindar went over Sea also

The Second Age ended with the first overthrow of Sauron, servant of Morgoth, and the taking of the One Ring

The Third Age cae was not held to have begun until Master Elrond departed, and the time was come for the do-peoples&039; in Middle-earth52

In the Fourth Age the earlier ages were often called the Elder Days; but that na out of Morgoth The histories of that tie

These were the dark years for Men of Middle-earth, but the years of the glory of NUmenor Of events in Middle-earth the records are few and brief, and their dates are often uncertain

In the beginning of this age h Elves still remained Most of these dwelt in Lindon west of the Ered Luin; but before the building of the Barad-dûr many of the Sindar passed eastward, and some established realms in the forests far ahere their people werein the north of Greenwood the Great, was one of these In Lindon north of the Lune dwelt Gil-galad, last heir of the kings of the Noldor in exile He was acknowledged as High King of the Elves of the West In Lindon south of the Lune dwelt for a tireatest of Elven wound, Friend-of-Men, once king of Nargothrond, who gave his life to save Beren son of Barahir

Later soion, upon the west of the Misty Mountains, and near to the West-gate of Moria This they did because they learned that reat craftsmen and less unfriendly to the Dwarves than the Sindar; but the friendship that grew up between the people of Durin and the Elven-sion was the closest that there has ever been between the two races Celebrireatest of their craftsmen; he was descended from Feanor

1 Foundation of the Grey Havens, and of Lindon

32 The Edain reach NU their old cities in Ered Luin go to Moria and swell its numbers

442 Death of Elros Tar-Minyatur

c 500 Sauron begins to stir again in Middle-earth

548 Birth in NUmenor of Silmarien

600 The first ships of the NUion founded by the Noldor

c 1000 Sauron, alar power of the NUhold He begins the building of Barad-dûr

1075 Tar-Ancali Queen of NUmenor

1200 Sauron endeavours to seduce the Eldar Gil-galad refuses to treat with hiin to make permanent havens

c 1500 The Elven-sht of their skill They begin the forging of the Rings of Power

c 1590 The Three Rings are coes the One Ring in Orodruin He cons of Sauron

1693 War of the Elves and Sauron begins The Three Rings are hidden

1695 Sauron&039;s forces invade Eriador Gil-galad sends Elrond to Eregion

1697 Eregion laid waste Death of Celebriates of Moria are shut Elrond retreats with ree of Imladris

1699 Sauron overruns Eriador

1700 Tar-Minastir sends a great navy from NUmenor to Lindon Sauron is defeated

1701 Sauron is driven out of Eriador The Westlands have peace for a long while

c 1800 Froin to establish dominions on the coasts Sauron extends his power eastwards The shadow falls on NUmenor

2251 Tar-Atanamir takes the sceptre Rebellion and division of the NUwraiths, slaves of the Nine Rings, first appear

2280 Ureat fortress of NUir is built It becomes the chief haven of the Faithful NUmenoreans

2899 Ar-Adûnakhôr takes the sceptre

3175 Repentance of Tar-Palantir Civil war in NUmenor

3255 Ar-Pharazôn the Golden seizes the sceptre

3261 Ar-Pharazôn sets sail and lands at Umbar

3262 Sauron is taken as prisoner to NU and corrupts the NUins the building of the Great Armament

3319 Ar-Pharazôn assails Valinor Downfall of NUmenor Elendil and his sons escape

3320 Foundations of the Realms in Exile: Arnor and Gondor The Stones are divided (II, 54) Sauron returns to Mordor

3429 Sauron attacks Gondor, takes Minas Ithil and burns the White Tree Isildur escapes down Anduin and goes to Elendil in the North Anarion defends Minas Anor and Osgiliath

3430 The Last Alliance of Elves and Men is foralad and Elendil march east to Imladris

3434 The host of the Alliance crosses the Misty Mountains Battle of Dagorlad and defeat of Sauron Siege of Barad-dûr begins

3440 Anarion slain

3441 Sauron overthrown by Elendil and Gil-galad, who perish Isildur takes the One Ring Sauron passes away and the Ringwraiths go into the shadows The Second Age ends

The Third Age

These were the fading years of the Eldar For long they were at peace wielding the Three Rings while Sauron slept and the One Ring was lost; but they atte in meuarding their hoards; but when evil began to stir again and dragons reappeared, one by one their ancient treasures were plundered, and they beca remained secure, but its numbers dwindled until many of its vast mansions became dark and empty The wisdom and the life-span of the NUled with lesser Men

When maybe a thousand years had passed, and the first shadow had fallen on Greenwood the Great, the Istari or Wizards appeared in Middle-earth It was afterwards said that they caers sent to contest the power of Sauron, and to unite all those who had the will to resist him; but they were forbidden to match his poith power, or to seek to dominate Elves or Men by force and fear

They ca and aged only slowly, and they had many powers of mind and hand They revealed their true naiven to thehest of this order (of whom it is said there were five) were called by the Eldar Curunir, &039;the Man of Skill&039;, and Mithrandir, &039;the Grey Pilgrim&039;, but by Men in the North Saruman and Gandalf Curunir journeyed often into the East, but dwelt at last in Isengard Mithrandir was closest in friendship with the Eldar, and wanderedabode

Throughout the Third Age the guardianship of the Three Rings was known only to those who possessed them But at the end it becareatest of the Eldar: Gil-galad, Galadriel and Cirdan Gil-galad before he died gave his ring to Elrond; Cirdan later surrendered his to Mithrandir For Cirdan saw further and deeper than any other in Middle-earth, and he welco whence he came and whither he would return

&039;Take this ring, Master,&039; he said, &039;for your labours will be heavy; but it will support you in the weariness that you have taken upon yourself For this is the Ring of Fire, and with it you rows chill But as for rey shores until the last ship sails I will await you&039;

2 Isildur plants a seedling of the White Tree in Minas Anor He delivers the South-kingdom to Meneldil Disaster of the Gladden Fields; Isildur and his three elder sons are slain

3 Ohtar brings the shards of Narsil to I of Arnor

109 Elrond weds Celebrian, daughter of Celeborn

130 Birth of Elladan and Elrohir, sons of Elrond

241 Birth of Arwen Undo Ostoher rebuilds Minas Anor

490 First invasion of Easterlings

500 Ros

541 Roins the line of Ship-kings of Gondor

861 Death of E&au Eärnil I takes Umbar, which becomes a fortress of Gondor

936 E&au Ciryandil slain in the siege of Umbar

1050 Hyarht of its power About this tiin to call it Mirkwood The Periannath are firstof the Harfoots to Eriador

c 1100 The Wise (the Istari and the chief Eldar) discover that an evil power has ht to be one of the Nazgûl

1149 Reign of Atanatar Alcarin begins

c 1150 The Fallohides enter Eriador The Stoors cole, or to Dunland

c 1300 Evil things begin to ain Orcs increase in the Misty Mountains and attack the Dwarves The Nazgûl reappear The chief of these corate ard; eleb I slain in battle with Rhudaur About this tile, and so of Ang I slain Fornost and Tyrn Gorthad are defended The Tower of A Valacar of Gondor dies, and the civil war of the Kin-strife begins

1437 Burning of Osgiliath and loss of the palantir Eldacar flees to Rhovanion; his son Ornendil is murdered

1447 Eldacar returns and drives out the usurper Castair

1448 Rebels escape and seize U Aldamir slain in ith the Harad and Corsairs of Umbar

1551 Hyarmendacil II defeats the Men of Harad

1601 Many Periannath ranted land beyond Baranduin by Argeleb II

c 1630 They are joined by Stoors coe Pelargir and slay King Minardil

1636 The Great Plague devastates Gondor Death of King Telemnar and his children The White Tree dies in Minas Anor The plague spreads north and west, and many parts of Eriador become desolate Beyond the Baranduin the Periannath survive, but suffer great loss

1640 King Tarondor re&039;s House to Minas Anor, and plants a seedling of the White Tree Osgiliath begins to fall into ruin Mordor is left unguarded

1810 King Telumehtar Umbardacil retakes Umbar and drives out the Corsairs

1851 The attacks of the Wainriders upon Gondor begin

1856 Gondor loses its eastern territories, and Nar Caliorlad

1900 Calimehtar builds the White Tower in Minas Anor

1940 Gondor and Arnor renew cohter of Ondoher of Gondor

1944 Ondoher falls in battle Eärnil defeats the enemy in South Ithilien He then wins the Battle of the Camp, and drives Wainriders into the Dead Marshes Arvedui claims the crown of Gondor

1945 Eärnil II receives the crown

1974 End of the North-kingdo over-runs Arthedain and takes Fornost

1975 Arvedui drowned in the Bay of Forochel The palantiri of AnnUs a fleet to Lindon The Witch-king defeated at the Battle of Fornost, and pursued to the Ettenmoors He vanishes from the North

1976 Aranarth takes the title of Chieftain of the DUnedain The heirloo of Elrond

1977 Fruar leads the eotheod into the North

1979 Bucca of the Marish becomes first Thain of the Shire

1980 The Witch-king co appears in Moria, and slays Durin VI

1981 Nain I slain The Dwarves flee from Moria Many of the Silvan Elves of Lorien flee south Amroth and Nimrodel are lost

1999 Thrain I codoûl issue froe Minas Ithil

2002 Fall of Minas Ithil, afterwards known as Minas Morgul The palantir is captured

2043 E&aued by the Witch-king

2050 The challenge is renewed E&auul and is lost Mardil beco Steward

2060 The power of Dol Guldur grows The Wise fear that it oes to Dol Guldur Sauron retreats and hides in the East The Watchful Peace begins The Nazgûl reul

2210 Thorin I leaves Erebor, and goes north to the Grey Mountains, where

2340 Isumbras I becomes thirteenth Thain, and first of the Took line The Oldbucks occupy the Buckland

2460 The Watchful Peace ends Sauron returns with increased strength to Dol Guldur

2463 The White Council is for, and is ol-Gollum hides in the Misty Mountains

2475 Attack on Gondor renewed Osgiliath finally ruined, and its stone-bridge broken

c 2480 Orcs begin to holds in the Misty Mountains so as to bar all the passes into Eriador Sauron begins to people Moria with his creatures

2509 Celebrian, journeying to Lorien, is waylaid in the Redhorn Pass, and receives a poisoned wound

2510 Celebrian departs over Sea Orcs and Easterlings overrun Calenardhon Eorl the Young wins the victory of the Field of Celebrant The Rohirrim settle in Calenardhon

2545 Eorl falls in battle in the Wold

2569 Brego son of Eorl coo enters the Forbidden Door and is lost About this tiin to afflict the Dwarves

2589 Dain I slain by a Dragon

2590 Thror returns to Erebor Gror his brother goes to the Iron Hills

c 2670 Tobold plants &039;pipe-weed&039; in the Southfarthing

2683 Isengriins the excavation of Great Smials

2698 Ecthelion I rebuilds the White Tower in Minas Tirith

2740 Orcs renew their invasions of Eriador

2747 Bandobras Took defeats an Orc-band in the Northfarthing

2758 Rohan attacked from west and east and overrun Gondor attacked by fleets of the Corsairs Hele in Helm&039;s Deep Wulf seizes Edoras

2758-9 The Long Winter follows Great suffering and loss of life in Eriador and Rohan Gandalf comes to the aid of the Shire-folk

2759 Death of Hels of the Mark Saru the Dragon descends on Erebor Dale destroyed Thror escapes with Thrain II and Thorin II

2790 Thror slain by an Orc in Moria The Dwarves gather for a war of vengeance Birth of Gerontius, later known as the Old Took

2793 The War of the Dwarves and Orcs begins

2799 Battle of Nanduhirion before the East-gate of Moria Dain Ironfoot returns to the Iron Hills Thrain II and his son Thorin wander ards They settle in the South of Ered Luin beyond the Shire (2802)

2800-64 Orcs fro Walda slain by them (2861)

2841 Thrain II sets out to revisit Erebor, but is pursued by the servants of Sauron

2845 Thrain the Dwarf is is is taken froain enters Dol Guldur, and discovers that its s and seeking for news of the One, and of Isildur&039;s Heir He finds Thrain and receives the key of Erebor Thrain dies in Dol Guldur

2851 The White Council es an attack on Dol Guldur Saruins to search near the Gladden Fields

2852 Belecthor II of Gondor dies The White Tree dies, and no seedling can be found The Dead Tree is left standing

2885 Stirred up by emissaries of Sauron the Haradrim cross the Poros and attack Gondor The sons of Folcwine of Rohan are slain in the service of Gondor

2890 Bilbo born in the Shire

2901 Most of the re to the attacks of Uruks of Mordor The secret refuge of Henneth Annûn is built

2907 Birth of Gilraen orn II

2911 The Fell Winter The Baranduin and other rivers are frozen White Wolves invade Eriador from the North

2912 Great floods devastate Enedwaith and Minhiriath Tharbad is ruined and deserted

2920 Death of the Old Took

2929 Arathorn son of Arador of the DUnedain weds Gilraen

2930 Arador slain by Trolls Birth of Denethor II son of Ecthelion II in Minas Tirith

2931 Aragorn son of Arathorn II born on March 1st

2933 Arathorn II slain Gilraen takes Aragorn to Iives him the name Estel (Hope); his ancestry is concealed

2939 Saru the Anduin near Gladden Fields, and that Sauron therefore has learned of Isildur&039;s end He is alar to the Council

2941 Thorin Oakenshield and Gandalf visit Bilbo in the Shire BilboThe White Council rees to an attack on Dol Guldur, since he noishes to prevent Sauron fro made his plans abandons Dol Guldur The Battle of the Five Ar Dain of the Iron Hills beco under the Mountain (Dain II)

2942 Bilbo returns to the Shire with the Ring Sauron returns in secret to Mordor

2944 Bard rebuilds Dale and becoins his search for the &039;thief&039; of the Ring

2948 Theoden son of Thengel, King of Rohan, born

2949 Gandalf and Balin visit Bilbo in the Shire

2950 Finduilas, daughter of Adrahil of Dol Amroth, born

2951 Sauron declares hiins the rebuilding of Barad-dûr Golluûl to reoccupy Dol Guldur Elrond reveals to &039;Estel&039; his true name and ancestry, and delivers to him the shards of Narsil Arwen, newly returned frooes out into the Wild

2953 Last s Saru has passed down Anduin to the Sea Saruard, which he takes as his own, and fortifies it Being jealous and afraid of Gandalf he sets spies to watch all his ins to keep agents in Bree and the Southfarthing