When they existed
One axis per age, each with its own scale. Where the register records a year, the object stands on the axis: a bar where beginning and end are both dated, a stroke with an open end where only one of them is — most things are still there. Where only the age is recorded, the object is named beneath that age. Nothing is placed by estimate.
- beginning and end dated
- only one date known
Years of the Trees
3 objectsThe Years of the Trees carry no year numbers in the register — these have no axis, and that is the finding, not a gap in the page.
First Age
6 objectsRecorded for this age, but without a year — named here rather than placed by guess:
Glamdring · Narsil · Orcrist · Ring of Barahir · Sting · The Nauglamír
Second Age
9 objectsRecorded for this age, but without a year — named here rather than placed by guess:
Third Age
14 objectsRecorded for this age, but without a year — named here rather than placed by guess:
Herugrim · Horn of Gondor · Horn of the Mark · The Red Book of Westmarch
Dates come from the register entries and carry their canon layer (K1 published in his lifetime, K2 posthumous). What is missing here is missing in the text. Back to the objects