![]() ![]() When Aragorn is off running for miles and miles and fighting orcs and trolls and Uruk-hai and doing all his other Lord of the Rings adventures, he hardly behaves like a regular human 87-year-old. This would mean that an elf who has lived for 500 years would be roughly equivalent in age to a human who has lived for 25 years. When the human is 50, the half-elf looks 30, etc, until the half elf is 180 and looks 90. However, some estimates suggest that one elf year is equivalent to approximately 20 human years. So how I read it is that a human and an half-elf born on the same day will grow at the same rate and look about the same age until adulthood, when the half-elf will start to age slower. ![]() In this post I’ll (1) look at Tolkien’s Númenórean years → human years conversion system and (2) extrapolate that system through two types of statistical simulation-(a) just drawing random numbers and (b) Bayesian modeling-to make some predictions about a range of possible ages.īut first, some context about why Aragon is so old! Super quick crash course in the Ages of Arda + Númenor It turns out that Tolkien left us a clue in some of his unfinished writings about Númenor, and we can use that information to make some educated guesses about Aragon’s actual human-scale age. In terms of the conversion rate between elf years and human years, Warcraft lore does not provide a clear answer. The Lord of the Rings occurs at the end of the Third Age of the world. In Arda (the whole world Tolkien created) there are four recorded ages, plus some pre-game stuff:Ĭreation: The main god Eru Ilúvatar and a couple dozen sub-gods ( Ainur) and bunch of angel-like-sub-sub-gods ( Maiar, including Gandalf, Saruman, and Sauron) created the world through music. ![]()
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