Elder Days
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| Dates: | Properly, the period to the end of the First Age (though sometimes used of the Second and Third Ages, too) | ||||||||||||||
| Meaning: | Former, ancient times1 | ||||||||||||||
The ancient days of Middle-earth
Strictly, the time before the end of the First Age. The term is sometimes expanded to include the Second and Third Ages.
Footnotes
| 1 | The use of the word 'Elder' is apparently meant to evoke the notion of ancient ancestors, too, as for example in archaic English eldern dawes, meaning 'days of our forefathers'. |
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