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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 slower 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>
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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Revision as of 19:59, 13 January 2022

History of Arda
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)
"...there is much else that may be told." — Glóin
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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]

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