HOME 10.2 a écrit :$10 It is computed by the lore-masters that the Valar came to the realm of Arda, which is the Earth, five thousand Valian Years ere the first rising of the Moon, which is as much as to say forty-seven thousands and nine hundred and one of our years. Of these, three thousand and five hundred (or thirty-three thousand five hundred and thirty of our reckoning) passed ere the measurement of time first known to the Eldar began with the flowering of the Trees. Those were the Days before days. Thereafter one thousand and four hundred and five and ninety Valian Years (or fourteen thousand of our years and three hundred and twenty-two) followed during which the Light of the Trees shone in Valinor. Those were the Days of Bliss. In those days, in the Year one thousand and fifty of the Valar, the Elves awoke in Kuivienen and the First Age of the Children of Ilúvatar began. [17]

HOME 11 a écrit :- Foreword

The title of this second part, The War of the Jewels, is an expression that my father often used of the last six centuries of the First Age: the history of Beleriand after the return of Morgoth to Middle-earth and the coming of the Noldor, until its end. 

HOME 11 a écrit :- 3-5 "Tale of Years" introduction
In the manuscript as it was originally written the Elder Days began with the Awakening of the Elves: Here begin the Elder Days, or the First Age of the Children of Ilúvatar -, but the Elder Days was struck out and does not appear in the typescript. Further on in The Tale of Years there is recorded a difference in application of the term 'Elder Days' in respect of their ending (a difference not, to my knowledge, found elsewhere): after the entry for V.Y.1500 'Fingolfin and Inglor cross the Straits of Ice' (this being the date in the Grey Annals, p. 29) it is said in the manuscript:

Here end the Elder Days with the new reckoning of time, according to some. But most lore-masters give that name also to the years of the war with Morgoth until his overthrow and casting forth.

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600 The Elves and the Fathers of Men depart from Middle-earth and pass over Sea. Here ends the First Age of the Children of Ilúvatar.
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Here end the Elder Days with the passing of Melkor, according to the reckoning of most lore-masters; here ends also the First Age

LotR 3 App F - OF THE ELVES a écrit :The High-elven was an ancient tongue of Eldamar beyond the Sea, the first to be recorded in writing. It was no longer a birth-tongue but had become, as it were, an 'Elven-latin', still used for ceremony, and for high matters of lore and song, by the High Elves, who had returned in exile to Middle-earth at the end of the First Age.

Citation :Tolkien réutilise ce terme, orthographié eorclanstán, pour désigner les Silmarils.

HOME 4.6 p 283 a écrit :The Silmarils are Eorclanstánas (also treated as an Old English noun with plural Silmarillas). There are several different forms of this Old English word: eorclan-, eorcnan-, earcnan-, and eorcan- from which is derived the 'Arkenstone' of the Lonely Mountain. The first element may be related to Gothic airkns 'holy'.

J.R.R. Tolkien a écrit :Lorsqu'Oromë demanda des Ambassadeurs, Imin, Tata et Enel étaient opposés à toute l'affaire et refusèrent le voyage. Ingwë [ici appartenant à la sixième génération] était le fils aîné d'Ilion, qui était de la ligne directe d'Iminyë à la 4e génération (tous ayant été premiers enfants et fils), c.-à-d. arrière-arrière-petit-fils : il était grand, très beau, aimé des Imillië, plus porté à la réflexion qu'aux arts. Son épouse était Ilwen (née en P.Â. 539). Son premier enfant était un fils, Ingwil, son second une fille Indis (née en P.Â. 934).