19-03-2008, 20:14
[espacement][citation=<i>Letters</i> n°211, p.283]... I hope the, evidently long but undefined, gap(*) in time between the Fall of Barad-dur and our Days is sufficient for 'literary credibility', even for readers acquainted with what is known or surmised of 'pre-history'.
(*) I imagine the gap to be about 6000 years: that is we are now at the end of the Fifth Age, if the Ages were of about the same length as S.A. and T.A. But they have, I think, quickened; and I imagine we are actually at the end of the Sixth Age, or in the Seventh.[/citation]
Peut-être n'ai-je pas les yeux bien en face des trous, mais je ne retrouve pas cette note de Tolkien dans la traduction française, p. 399.
Didier.
(*) I imagine the gap to be about 6000 years: that is we are now at the end of the Fifth Age, if the Ages were of about the same length as S.A. and T.A. But they have, I think, quickened; and I imagine we are actually at the end of the Sixth Age, or in the Seventh.[/citation]
Peut-être n'ai-je pas les yeux bien en face des trous, mais je ne retrouve pas cette note de Tolkien dans la traduction française, p. 399.
Didier.