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

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

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

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

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

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

Men build to Industrial Age

Dwarves, Hobbits, Orcs go into hiding

Men learn too much too quickly

Men largely destroy themselves

Men gradually rebuild to medieval level of civilization amongst the ruins

Elves return

Free Imperia founded

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