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$5 Time indeed began with the beginning of Ea, and in that
beginning the Valar came into the World. But the measurement
which the Valar made of the ages of their labours is not known
to any of the Children of Iluvatar, until the first flowering of
Telperion in Valinor. Thereafter the Valar counted time by the
ages of Valinor, whereof each age contained one hundred of the
Years of the Valar; but each such year was longer than are nine
years under the Sun.(6)
$6 Now measured by the flowering of the Trees there were
twelve hours in each Day of the Valar, and one thousand of
such days the Valar took to be a year in their realm. It is
supposed indeed by the Lore-masters that the Valar so devised
the hours of the Trees that one hundred of such years so
measured should be in duration as one age of the Valar (7) (as
those ages were in the days of their labours before the founda-
tion of Valinor).(8) Nonetheless this is not certainly known.
$7 But as for the Years of the Trees and those that came
after,(9) one such Year was longer than nine such years as now
are. For there were in each such Year twelve thousand hours.
Yet the hours of the Trees were each seven times as long as is
one hour of a full-day upon Middle-earth from sun-rise to
sun-rise, when light and dark are equally divided.(10) Therefore
each Day of the Valar endured for four and eighty of our hours,
and each Year for four and eighty thousand: which is as much
as three thousand and five hundred of our days, and is
somewhat more than are nine and one half of our years (nine
and one half and eight hundredths and yet a little).(11)
$8 It is recorded by the Lore-masters that this is not rightly
as the Valar designed at the making and ordering (12) of the Moon
and Sun. For it was their intention that ten years of the Sun, no
more and no less, should be in length as one Year of the Trees
had been; and it was their first device that each year of the Sun
should contain seven hundred times of sunlight and moonlight,
and each of these times should contain twelve hours, each in
duration one seventh of an hour of the Trees. By that reckoning
each Sun-year would contain three hundred and fifty full days of
divided moonlight and sunlight, that is eight thousand and four
hundred hours, equalling twelve hundred hours of the Trees, or
one tenth of a Valian Year. But the Moon and Sun proved more

wayward and slower in their passage than the Valar had
intended, as is hereafter told,(13) and a year of the Sun is
somewhat longer than was one tenth of a Year in the Days of
the Trees.
$9 The shorter year of the Sun was so made (14) because of the
greater speed of all growth, and likewise of all change and
withering, that the Valar knew should come to pass after the
death of the Trees. And after that evil had befallen the Valar
reckoned time in Arda by the years of the Sun, and do so still,