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	The '''Fourth Age''' and the later ages that followed it, are fictional time periods from ]'s universe of ]. Most of his fiction about Middle-earth concerned earlier ages, and there is relatively little material on these later ages that followed the ].
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	The '''Fourth Age''' followed the defeat of ] and the destruction of his ], but did not officially begin until after the Bearers of the ] left Middle-earth for the ].<ref>{{ME-ref\|RotK\|Appendix B {{ME-date\|SR\|1421-1422}}}}</ref>

	The Fourth Age was (presumably) marked by the recovery of the ] kingdoms in exile (] and ]), the final ascent of ] and the total wane of the ].

	Tolkien's writing does not provide information on more than the first few centuries of this age, so it is not known when it ended.

	==Later Ages==

	Tolkien said that he thought the time between the end of the Third Age and the ] <small>A.D.</small> was about 6000 years, and that in ] <small>A.D.</small> it should have been around the end of the Fifth Age if the Fourth and Fifth Ages were about the same length as the Second and Third Ages. He said, however, in a letter written in 1958 that he believed the Ages had quickened and that it was about the end of the Sixth Age/beginning of the Seventh.<ref>{{ME-ref\|Letters\|#211 pg 283 footnote}}</ref> It must be kept in mind that Tolkien typically refuted that Middle Earth was in any way a real world and that he tended to deny it was even fictionally an alternate early history. How Tolkien in later years spoke of his fiction might be considered of questionable use in canonical interpetation of his fiction.

	Determining the epoch of a Fifth Age is important for those who apply the Tolkien calendar to present dates. For example, issue 42 of ], the journal of the ] (] ]), carried a lengthy article analyzing all the available data and concluding that the First Age began on ], ], the Second Age on ], ], the Third Age on ], ], and the Fourth Age on ], ].

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