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picara
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 Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject: Elwing and the birth of Elrond/Elros |
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| I was looking at some first age stuff. I don't know how reliable Encyclopedia of Arda is, but if its time line is correct, Elwing would have been 25 years old when Elrond and Elros were born. How does that fit into LaCE and the idea that elves aren't mature until 50? Or is Encyclopedia of Arda wrong? |
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject: Re: Elwing and the birth of Elrond/Elros |
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| picara wrote: | | I was looking at some first age stuff. I don't know how reliable Encyclopedia of Arda is, but if its time line is correct, Elwing would have been 25 years old when Elrond and Elros were born. How does that fit into LaCE and the idea that elves aren't mature until 50? Or is Encyclopedia of Arda wrong? |
According to Unfinished Tales, Elros (and therefore Elrond) was born 58 years before the second age began. One of my books also has a 'tale of years' for the First Age, but I don't know how reliable it is, since it puts their birth at 550 F.A., and the War of Wrath at 572, which would only be 22 years before the second age began. But anyway, if you go from their reckoning, they have Elwing still fairly young when Thingol is killed, which is very early in the 500s.
So the upshot of that is, I'm not sure. If you go by their reckoning, but get the date of the twins' birth right, then yeah, she wouldn't have been much older than her 20s.
I would expect there is something more reliable in HoME somewhere though.
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Jillian
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| Never forget Elwing was only part elf, and her father Dior was 19 when he married Elwing's mother, so I assume part elven people grew and matured like mortals, not like elves. |
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