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12 hours of sunlight.
700 times of sunlight and moonlight = 350 full days = 1 Sun
Year.
1 hour = 1/7 of 1 hour of the Trees
Therefore:
1 Sun Year would have (24 X 350) 8400 hours = (8400 - 7)
1200 hours of the Trees = 1/10 of a Valian Year (see (i) above);
thus 1 Valian Year would = 10 Sun Years
The matter can be expressed more concisely thus:
1 year of the Trees = (7 x 12000) 84000 hours of our time
84000 - (350 x 24) 8400 = 10
but
84000 - (365 25 x 24) 8766 = 9 582

(iv) The dates of the first flowering of the Trees and the first
rising of the Moon ($10)
The Trees first flowered after 3500 Valian Years had passed,
which is said to be equal to 33530 Sun Years (this pre-
supposes an equivalence of 9-58; 9 582 gives 33537).
The Moon first rose after 5000 Valian Years had passed,
which is said to be equal to 47901 Sun Years (this pre-
supposes an equivalence of 9-5802; if the equivalence is 9-582
the number of Sun Years would be 47910, if 9-58 the number
would be 47900).
The Trees shone for 1495 Valian Years, which is said to be
equal to 14322 Sun Years (this presupposes an equivalence of
almost exactly 9-58).



$511-29 The great expansion of the pre-Lord of the Rings narrative
(QS, AV 2) is in part derived from the later Ainulindale' (that
AAm followed the last version, D, of that work is shown by
various details, as for instance the names Ea, Illuin, and Ormal,
the first of these entering D by later addition, and those of the
Lamps replacing Foronte and Hyarante by emendation). But
there is much that is entirely new: as that Manwe held a great
feast on the Isle of Almaren, where Tulkas espoused Nessa; that
Sauron was 'a great craftsman of the household of Aule'; that
the Valar were unable to overcome Melkor at that time because
of the need to subdue the turmoil of the Earth and to preserve
what they might of what they had achieved; and other features
mentioned below. - The question of the cosmology is discussed
at the end of this commentary.
$15 The statement that under the light of the Lamps 'there was great
growth of trees and herbs, and beasts and birds came forth' (cf.

also $18, where Vana robed Nessa in flowers at the feast on
Almaren) belongs with the Ainulindale' ($31): 'flowers of many
hues, and trees whose blossom was like snow upon the