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The unit of time of the Years of the Sun was the [[coranar]], also referred to as a [[loa]]. | The unit of time of the Years of the Sun was the [[coranar]], also referred to as a [[loa]]. | ||
The Valar intended a Year of the Sun to be exactly 350 full days, being a 1/10 fraction of a [[Years of the Trees|Year of the Trees]]. However the Sun was | The Valar intended a Year of the Sun to be exactly 350 full days, being a 1/10 fraction of a [[Years of the Trees|Year of the Trees]]. However the Sun was faster than expected and in one Year of the Sun, it turns 365.25 times instead of 350, or approximately 1/9.58 of a Year of the Trees.<ref>{{MR|P2}}</ref> | ||
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History of Arda | ||
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Before the Creation | ||
Before the Ages | ||
Days before days | ||
Years of the Trees (up to Y.T. 1050) | ||
Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar | ||
First Age (begins in Y.T. 1050 and overlaps with the Years of the Trees up to Y.T. 1500) - Years of the Sun begin in F.A. 1 | ||
Second Age - Arda made round in S.A. 3319 | ||
Third Age | ||
Fourth Age | ||
Later Ages (up to present day) | ||
End of Arda | ||
Timeline of Arda (See: Round World version of the Silmarillion for a later conception of Tolkien's cosmology) |
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The Years of the Sun was the time after the first rising of the Sun in the First Age until the present.
The unit of time of the Years of the Sun was the coranar, also referred to as a loa.
The Valar intended a Year of the Sun to be exactly 350 full days, being a 1/10 fraction of a Year of the Trees. However the Sun was faster than expected and in one Year of the Sun, it turns 365.25 times instead of 350, or approximately 1/9.58 of a Year of the Trees.[1]
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring, "Part Two. The Annals of Aman"