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Yes there was a first age, no it is not a loop. Kieran Send a noteboard - 23/04/2010 01:49:45 AM
It's only logical that there actually must have been one very first Age, immediately after the Creator made the Wheel. Of course, after countless turnings of the Wheel, the names "first Age", "second Age" and so on lost their meaning a bit, since you could also call them the 1081. Age and the 1082. Age (or whatever would fit, if you count all Ages that ever occurred). However, since the particular Ages basically always have the same activity, it makes sense to name them always from 1st Age to 7th Age and not continuously increase the numbers in the names of the Ages or change the particular numbers of the Ages (at least from the PoV from an omniscient narrator).


Indeed, the books say that each turning of the wheel has slightly more change to it. its not a loop but more like a spiral growing bigger and bigger each time. Each time it still circles, but a little bigger than the last time, or rather a little more change than last time.
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thinking on the 4th-7th and 1st ages.... mazza3 - 21/04/2010 10:32:38 PM 1386 Views
Re: thinking on the 4th-7th and 1st ages.... GateKeeper - 22/04/2010 12:54:27 AM 996 Views
Re: thinking on the 4th-7th and 1st ages.... Kieran - 22/04/2010 07:06:52 AM 762 Views
I don't know that there could really be a first or last Age... Fanatic-Templar - 22/04/2010 07:48:11 AM 873 Views
Yeah, it's the "third age"... DomA - 22/04/2010 02:13:56 PM 837 Views
Difficult to see how you can refer to a billion people as a "fringe"... *NM* Shannow - 22/04/2010 05:02:08 PM 378 Views
You really think half of all christians believe that Earth is only 3000 years old? *NM* Japhy - 23/04/2010 12:35:01 AM 384 Views
Last I've heard, the majority of Christians weren't fundamentalists DomA - 23/04/2010 01:54:04 PM 745 Views
How about "living on the fringe of reality"? *NM* Marshall - 24/04/2010 10:21:17 PM 377 Views
That's not entirely right Etzel - 22/04/2010 03:54:23 PM 804 Views
I think FT is saying that human conceptions of time don't apply to eternity. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 22/04/2010 04:14:45 PM 735 Views
However, I think RJ definitely had an idea, what each Age of the 7 Ages is supposed to be. *NM* Etzel - 22/04/2010 09:53:20 PM 352 Views
I don't think so. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 22/04/2010 09:57:43 PM 709 Views
No, the point is... Etzel - 23/04/2010 10:06:03 AM 761 Views
Not sure what your point/question is. Doesn't seem like an issue to me quite frankly . RugbyPlayingAshaman - 26/04/2010 04:45:21 PM 790 Views
The question is... Etzel - 26/04/2010 05:08:48 PM 714 Views
I agree with FT RugbyPlayingAshaman - 26/04/2010 06:28:29 PM 881 Views
Well, maybe. Fanatic-Templar - 22/04/2010 06:32:05 PM 766 Views
Doesn't make sense Etzel - 22/04/2010 09:51:55 PM 707 Views
Why? Fanatic-Templar - 22/04/2010 11:16:21 PM 746 Views
Ok File Leader - 23/04/2010 12:15:03 AM 739 Views
The question isn't if it would be possible for the Creator... Etzel - 23/04/2010 08:34:23 AM 730 Views
Yes, but as we also know from the cosmology of WoT... Fanatic-Templar - 23/04/2010 09:08:58 AM 799 Views
Yeah... Etzel - 23/04/2010 10:03:19 AM 742 Views
Why must there have been such a thing? Fanatic-Templar - 23/04/2010 07:30:02 PM 753 Views
So, you believe there never was a first 1st Age? *NM* Etzel - 24/04/2010 08:55:45 AM 380 Views
Yes and no... Fanatic-Templar - 24/04/2010 10:55:02 PM 708 Views
Don't think so, but might be an interesting question for BS! *NM* Etzel - 25/04/2010 09:38:09 AM 353 Views
True that. *NM* Fanatic-Templar - 25/04/2010 06:30:03 PM 406 Views
Yes there was a first age, no it is not a loop. Kieran - 23/04/2010 01:49:45 AM 783 Views
More change? Fanatic-Templar - 23/04/2010 05:03:22 AM 692 Views
Re: More change? Kieran - 24/04/2010 01:25:22 AM 721 Views
On the Ages... Etzel - 22/04/2010 02:16:38 PM 1037 Views
Re: On the Ages... Kieran - 23/04/2010 01:54:16 AM 734 Views
Re: thinking on the 4th-7th and 1st ages.... RugbyPlayingAshaman - 22/04/2010 03:09:32 PM 838 Views
Nah, it's just a Tolkien rip-off... ursidae - 22/04/2010 06:05:50 PM 1172 Views
Re: thinking on the 4th-7th and 1st ages.... gjjfh - 23/04/2010 04:15:49 AM 759 Views
Can't be... Etzel - 23/04/2010 08:27:29 AM 754 Views
Yeah, but Loial apparently read a copy of The Lord of the Rings somewhere... Fanatic-Templar - 23/04/2010 09:11:00 AM 798 Views
It's reversed... Etzel - 23/04/2010 10:10:56 AM 872 Views
I doubt it, I don't have the books with me right now... Fanatic-Templar - 23/04/2010 07:31:34 PM 831 Views
I don't think that's right. *NM* Etzel - 24/04/2010 08:57:45 AM 757 Views
You're right, that is not referenced in the book. Fanatic-Templar - 25/04/2010 06:34:29 PM 704 Views
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