Timeline for Who or what is the oldest sentient being in Tolkien's lore?
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| Jan 9 at 15:15 | comment | added | Michael Foster | Could an equivalent to Old Man Willow have produced the first acorn? Chicken and eggs... | |
| Oct 27, 2018 at 8:38 | comment | added | Meat Trademark | "Longest lived" is a great way to put it. Exactly what I meant. (Better late than never?) | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 0:48 | comment | added | Pryftan | He absolutely isn't Eru; because Tom Bombadil was invented outside the legendarium and long after he first started writing - but before The Lord of the Rings. I want to say early 1930s but I can't be certain of that. | |
| Mar 10, 2018 at 18:27 | comment | added | Spencer | It's possible that Celeborn is at least as old as Galadriel. | |
| Nov 18, 2016 at 12:34 | history | post merged (destination) | |||
| May 12, 2015 at 5:00 | comment | added | user24069 | -1 not enough Tom Bombadil | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 23:45 | comment | added | user8719 | Of the Elves, Daeron makes a fleeting appearance in Appendix E. According to the Annals of Aman he invented his runes in VY 1300 (so he was born some indefinite time earlier) whereas Galadriel was born in VY 1362. Now, Of Beren and Lúthien states that during the Quest of the Silmaril he "came into the East of Middle-earth, where for many ages he made lament beside dark waters for Lúthien", so probability is that he's still alive at the time of LotR. That ranks him before Galadriel, but Círdan is still older. | |
| Oct 27, 2014 at 18:53 | comment | added | Omegacron | Yep. Tom is the Bomb. | |
| Apr 12, 2014 at 21:12 | comment | added | Paul Draper | +1 for Tom Bombadil. No one knows what the heck he is. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 17:47 | history | answered | The Spooniest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |