Tolkien said that he thought the time between the end of the Third Age and the 20th century AD was about 6,000 years, and that in 1958 it should have been around the end of the Fifth Age if the Fourth and Fifth Ages were about the same length as the Second and Third Ages.
Tolkien je rekao da on misli da je između kraja Trećeg doba i dvadesetog stoljeća proteklo nekih 6.000 godina te da je 1958. godina bila negdje na kraju Petog doba, ako su Četvrto i Peto doba bila podjednakih duljina kao što su bila Drugo i Treće.