The Third Age (other)
The Third Age is the era during which J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' fantasy novel is set, and part of Tolkien's broader Middle-earth legendarium. Related pages include: * '' The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age'', a 2004 video game * ''The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age'' (Game Boy Advance), a 2004 video game Third Age may also refer to: * Third age (retirement), active retirement * Third Age Foundation (UK), a UK-based non-profit organization * University of the Third Age, a UK-based international organization * The time period during which '' The Wheel of Time'' series takes place * The third age of mankind, during which '' Babylon 5'' takes place See also *Party of the Third Age The Party of the Third Age ( lb, Partei vum 3. Alter, french: Parti du Troisième Âge) was a political party in Luxembourg. It contested the 1999 election to the Chamber of Deputies, but has since disbanded. Its party platform was dedicated to ...

Third Age
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, began when the Ainu (Middle-earth), Ainur entered Arda (Middle-earth), Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the fictional universe. Time from that point was measured using Valian Years, though the subsequent history of Arda was divided into three time periods using different years, known as the Years of the Lamps, the Years of the Trees and the Years of the Sun. A separate, overlapping chronology divides the history into 'Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar'. The first such Age began with the Awakening of the Elves during the Years of the Trees and continued for the first six centuries of the Years of the Sun. All the subsequent Ages took place during the Years of the Sun. Most Middle-earth stories take place in the first three Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar. Major themes of the history are the divine creation of the world ...
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Tolkien's Legendarium
Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his ''The Lord of the Rings'', and which his son Christopher summarized in his compilation of ''The Silmarillion'' and documented in his 12-volume series ''The History of Middle-earth''. The legendarium's origins reach back to 1914, when Tolkien began writing poems and story sketches, drawing maps, and inventing languages and names as a private project to create a unique English mythology. The earliest story drafts (of ''The Book of Lost Tales'') are from 1916; he revised and rewrote these for most of his adult life. ''The Hobbit'' (1937), Tolkien's first published novel, was not originally part of the larger mythology but became linked to it. Both ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'' (1954 and 1955) took place in the Third Age of Middle-earth, while virtually all of his earlier writing had been set in the first two ages of the world. ...
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