[Errata] The Nature of Middle-Earth

[Erendis]

Je suis d'accord avec les 2 1ers, et le dernier point m'avait donné du fil a retordre ! ^^ (j'avais conclu par un "c'est n'importe quoi ces nombres" ^^) mais à la lumière de ta supposition, les choses semblent effectivement prendre plus de sens.

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The Ingar and Ñoldor settle on the east bank of the Anduin (the region of later Lórien). They rest till spring 1130/27. Then a new begetting of children begins. Available pairs of the Ingar and Ñoldor are about 4,000. (The total 8th gen. = 14,000 – but 1/3 are Avari, leaving about 9,000 Eldar, 9/20 of which = 450 × 9 = 4,050 available pairs. 2,000 pairs beget children (1,000 first time, 1,000 second time) who are born in spring of 1130/36.

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The Ingar and Ñoldor settle on the east bank of the Anduin (the region of later Lórien). They rest till spring 1130/27. Then a new begetting of children begins. Available pairs of the Ingar and Ñoldor are about 4,000. (The total 8th gen. = 14,000 – but 1/3 are Avari, leaving about 9,000 Eldar, 9/20 of which = 450 × 9 = 4,050 are Ñoldor and Ingar available pairs. 2,000 pairs beget children (1,000 first time, 1,000 second time) who are born in spring of 1130/36.

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Cela permettrait effectivement de comprendre pourquoi on ne parle de que 2000 pairs qui enfantent ensuite.

A noter qu'il manque la fermeture d'une parenthèse suite à "(The total 8th"

En revanche, page 51, il est bien écrit qu'il n'y a que 2000 couples de Teleri, se basant sur 4950 individus.

Ta proposition permet aussi de raccorder les 9000 Eldar aux nombres donnés : 4050 (Ingar + Ñoldor) + 4950 Teleri = 9000 Eldar