====== Short History of Arda ====== ===== Before measured time: ===== Eru makes the Ainur Ainur make Eru's Music, creating Arda  Melkor tries to mar music, enhancing it Some Ainur go into Arda, becoming Valar and Maiar ===== Measured Time: ===== 1-14,673 Melkor beats them up, mars Arda Tulkas is last into Arda, Melkor runs away 18,206 Valar settle in Almaren in center of Arda Aulë makes 2 lamps, puts then on edges of Arda Spring of Arda 32,579 Tulkas weds Nessa Celebration, then Tulkas naps Melkor sneaks over cliffs of night Melkor raises Iron Mountains, delves Utumno Melkor partially blights spring of Arda 33,058 Melkor overthrows lamps, creates seas Almaren destroyed Yavanna puts life to sleep to save it End of Spring of Arda Valar raise Valinor with encircling mountains 33,537 Two Trees grown in Valinor by Yavanna ---- ===== Beginning of Age of the Two Trees ===== 1 Oromë hunts Melkor in vain Melkor naps in Utumno, raises Misty Mountains 9582 Varda makes stars for 50 years, organizes Constellations 10,061 varda makes sickle of valar (big dipper) first 144 elves wake up in Cuiviénen 10,349 Melkor finds and afflicts elves 10,396 Oromë finds elves Elves fear Oromë, blaming him for Melkor's work 10,406 Orome tells Valar about elves, retuns to them 10,444 War of the Powers, vast destruction 10,464 Melkor driven to Utumno, sieged 10,530 Utumno cast down Tulkas chains Melkor Sauron escapes 10,550 Elves invited to Valinor Elves split up, do all sorts of things Some stay, some follow, some get sidetracked Elwë meets Melian, trances out 10,847 Ulmo brings island Tol Eressëa for elves Noldor and Vanyar go to Valinor, build there Teleri stay, look for Elwë Ossë teaches them ship craft 10,856 Valar break Mountains to let light of trees out 10,943 White tree given to Noldor by Yavanna 11,029 Island brings most Teleri most of the way to Valinor 11,038 Elwë wakes up, weds Melian, now king of Elves in Beleriand 11,201 Fëanor born to Finwë 11,978 Dwarves enter Beleriand Fëanor creates alphabet (Tengwar) 12,744 Orcs enter Beleriand Dwarves make weapons for Sindar 13,415 Melkor released, befriends Noldor 13,894 Fëanor creates Silmarils, Yavanna hallows them with light of two trees 14,325 Melkor & Ungoliant attack Valinor Ungoliant kills two trees Melkor steals Silmarils, kills Finwë They flee, fight; balrogs save Melkor Fëanor rebels, swears his line to recovering Silmarils, renames Melkor Morgoth Kinslaying, Fëanor steals swan ships Mandos pronounces doom on Fëanor's line Fëanor crosses, abandons Fingolfin's host to cross on ice, burns ships Gothmog kills Fëanor, Angabad besieged 14,373 Fingolfin crosses ice with heavy losses Sun & Moon Created from last fruits of two trees ===== Beginning of First Age of Men ===== 1. Men wake up 466. Beren & Luthien take back a Silmaril 540. Morgoth controls all Beleriand 542. Eärendil, guided by Silmaril, comes to Valinor 545. Host of Valinor lands in Beleriand 587. Destruction of Beleriand 590. Morgoth thrust from Arda Eärendil set to watch for his return with Silmaril Maedhros and Maglor steal recovered Silmarils Burned, cast them in firey pit and in ocean ===== Beginning of 2nd Age of Men ===== 32.  First King of Numenor 1000. Sauron begins Barad Dur 1350. Galadriel to Lothlorien 1500. First rings of power forged 1600. One Ring Forged 1697. Elrond founds Rivendell 3262. Sauron defeated by Numenor, captured 3319. Ar Pharazon invades Valinor Numenor sundered, remnants of Beleriand sunk Founding of Gondor, Arnor 3441 Defeat of Sauron by Last Alliance ===== Beginning of Third Age of Men ===== 1000 The Istari arrive in Middle Earth 1150 First Hobbits arrive in Eriador 1300 Nazgûl reappear, Witch King founds Angmar 1636 Gondor's white tree dies 1980 Balrog in Moria, dwarves flee 2941 Bilbo gets the ring 2942 Sauron returns to Mordor 3019 One Ring Destroyed 3021 Bilbo & Frodo go to Valinor Last elves go to Valinor ===== Beginning of Fourth Age of Men ===== Men build to Industrial Age Dwarves, Hobbits, Orcs go into hiding ===== Beginning of Fifth Age of Men ===== Men learn too much too quickly Men largely destroy themselves ===== Beginning of Sixth Age of Men ===== Men gradually rebuild to medieval level of civilization amongst the ruins ===== Beginning of Seventh Age of Men ===== Elves return Free Imperia founded [[campaign|Campaign History]]