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Tolkien meant Arda to be "our own green and solid Earth", seen here in the Baltistan mountains, "at some quite remote epoch in the past".[1]

In

Valian Years, though the subsequent history of Arda was divided into three time periods using different years, known as the Years of the Lamps, the Years of the Trees, and the Years of the Sun. A separate, overlapping chronology divides the history into 'Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar'. The first such Age began with the Awakening of the Elves during the Years of the Trees and continued for the first six centuries of the Years of the Sun. All the subsequent Ages took place during the Years of the Sun. Most Middle-earth
stories take place in the first three Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar.

Major themes of the history are the

splintering of the created light as different wills come into conflict. Scholars have noted the biblical echoes of God, Satan, and the fall of man here, rooted in Tolkien's own Christian faith. Arda is, as critics have noted, "our own green and solid Earth at some quite remote epoch in the past."[1] As such, it has not only an immediate story but a history, and the whole thing is an "imagined prehistory"[3]
of the Earth as it is now.

Music of the Ainur

Main articles:
Cosmology of Middle-earth

The supreme deity of Tolkien's universe is

Elves.[T 1]

Then Ilúvatar created

Eä, which means "to be," the universe itself, and formed within it Arda, the Earth, "globed within the void": the world together with the three airs is set apart from Avakúma, the "void" without. The first 15 of the Ainur that descended to Arda, and the most powerful ones, were called Valar; the lesser Ainur were called Maiar.[T 1]

Ages of Arda

Valian Years

The Spring of Arda, lit by the two great lamps. Based on Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle-earth

When the

Almaren upon the Great Lake.[T 2]

This period, known as the Spring of Arda, was a time when the Valar had ordered the World as they wished and rested upon Almaren, and Melkor lurked beyond the Walls of Night. During this time animals first appeared, and forests started to grow.[T 2] The Spring of Arda was interrupted when Melkor returned to Arda, creating his fortress of Utumno or Udûn beneath the Iron Mountains in the far north. The period ended when Melkor assaulted and destroyed the Lamps of the Valar. Arda was again darkened, and the fall of the great Lamps spoiled the symmetry of Arda's surface. New continents were created:

Sea of Ringil. After the destruction of the Two Lamps the Years of the Lamps ended and the Years of the Trees began.[T 2] A Valian Year was considerably longer than a solar year.[T 3][b]

Years of the Trees

Further information:
Trees and forests in Middle-earth
Arda in the Years of the Trees. The Two Trees of Valinor illuminated the Blessed Realm; the rest of Arda was dark at that time. The outlines of the continents are purely schematic.

After the destruction of the Two Lamps and the kingdom of

Sleep of Yavanna (recalled by Treebeard as the Great Darkness).[T 2]

The Years of the Trees were divided into two epochs. The first ten ages, the Days of Bliss, saw peace and prosperity in Valinor. The

Children of Ilúvatar, and were soon approached by the Enemy Melkor who hoped to enslave them. Learning of this, the Valar and the Maiar came into Middle-earth and, in the War of the Powers (also called the Battle of the Powers), defeated Melkor and brought him captive to Valinor. This began the period of the Peace of Arda.[T 4]

After the War of the Powers,

Silmarils, three gems crafted by Fëanor that contained light of the Two Trees, from his vault, and destroyed the Trees of the Valar. The world was again dark, save for the faint starlight.[T 6][T 7]

Bitter at the Valar's inactivity, Fëanor and his house left to pursue Melkor, cursing him with the name "Morgoth".

Helcaraxë or Grinding Ice in the far north, losing many. The War of the Great Jewels followed, and lasted until the end of the First Age. Meanwhile, the Valar took the last living fruit of Laurelin and the last living flower of Telperion and used them to create the Moon and Sun, which remained a part of Arda, but were separate from Ambar (the world). The first rising of the sun over Ambar heralded the end of the Years of the Trees, and the start of the Years of the Sun, which last to the present day.[T 9]

Years of the Sun

The Years of the Sun were the last of the three great time-periods of Arda. They began with the first sunrise in conjunction with the return of the

Fourth in Tolkien's stories. Tolkien estimated that modern times would correspond to the sixth or seventh age.[T 11]

Tolkien situated the History of
Arda as Earth's prehistory.[T 11]
Age
 Duration
years		 Events
Valian Years
Days before days[T 12]
 3,500 First War:
   Marring of Arda
   
Aman and Middle-earth created
   The Valar move to Valinor
Years of the Trees
 1,500    Yavanna creates the
Silmarils
Years of the Sun
First Age (cont'd) 590 Awakening of Men
War of the Jewels
War of Wrath:
   Morgoth's defeat in Beleriand
   Thangorodrim broken
   Most of Beleriand drowned
Second Age 3,441
Akallabêth:
   Sauron's first downfall
   World made round
   Númenor drowned
   Valinor
removed from Arda
Third Age 3,021 War of the Ring:
   Final defeat of Sauron
   Destruction of the
Elves
depart from Middle-earth
Fourth Age and later ???? Tolkien estimated that the Fourth Age began approximately 6,000 years ago and that we would now be in the 6th or 7th Age[T 11]

Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar

The First Age of the

Cuiviénen in the middle-east of Middle-earth. This marked the start of the years when the Children of Ilúvatar were active in Middle-earth.[T 13]

First Age

Further information: Sundering of the Elves and Túrin Turambar
Arda in the First Age. The outlines of the continents are purely schematic.

The First Age of the Children of Ilúvatar, also referred to as the Elder Days in The Lord of the Rings, began during the Years of the Trees when the Elves awoke at Cuiviénen, and hence the events mentioned above under Years of the Trees overlap with the beginning of the First Age.[T 13]

Having crossed into Middle-earth, Fëanor was soon lost in an attack on Morgoth's

Blue Mountains.[T 14] Morgoth broke the siege in the Dagor Bragollach, or the Battle of Sudden Flame.[T 15]
The Elves, Men, and Dwarves were all disastrously defeated in the Nírnaeth Arnoediad or Battle of Unnumbered Tears,
Doriath[T 17] and Gondolin.[T 18]

At the end of the age, all that remained of free Elves and Men in

Great Sea to beg the Valar for aid against Morgoth. They responded, sending forth a great host. In the War of Wrath, Melkor was utterly defeated. He was expelled into the Void and most of his works were destroyed, bringing the First Age to an end. This came at a terrible cost, however, as most of Beleriand itself was sunk.[T 19]

Second Age

The Second Age is characterized by the establishment and flourishing of

Ringwraiths, and the early wars of the Rings between Sauron and the Elves. It ended with Sauron's defeat by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.[T 20][c]

At the start of the Second Age, the Men who had remained faithful were given the island of Númenor, in the middle of the Great Sea, and there they established a powerful kingdom. The

Mount Doom to control the other rings and their bearers. Celebrimbor, a grandson of Fëanor, forged three mighty rings on his own: Vilya, possessed first by the Elven king Gil-galad, then by Elrond; Nenya, wielded by Galadriel; and Narya, given by Celebrimbor to Círdan, who gave it to Gandalf.[T 20]

As soon as Sauron put on the One Ring, the Elves realized that they had been betrayed and removed the Three (Sauron eventually obtained the Seven and the Nine. While he was unable to suborn the Dwarf ringbearers, he had more success with the Men who bore the Nine; they became the Nazgûl or Ringwraiths). Sauron then made war on the elves and nearly destroyed them utterly during the Dark Years, but when it seemed defeat was imminent, the Númenóreans joined the battle and completely crushed the forces of Sauron. Sauron never forgot the ruin brought on his armies by the Númenóreans, and made it his goal to destroy them.[T 20]

Towards the end of the age, the Númenóreans became increasingly haughty. Now they sought to dominate other men and to establish kingdoms. Centuries after Tar-Minastir's engagement, when Sauron had largely recovered, Ar-Pharazôn, the last and most powerful of the Kings of

Eru Ilúvatar), were persecuted openly by those called the King's Men, and were sacrificed in the name of Melkor. Eventually, Sauron convinced Ar-Pharazôn to invade Aman, promising him that he would thus obtain immortality.[T 20] Amandil, chief of the Faithful, sailed westward to warn the Valar. His son Elendil and grandsons Isildur and Anárion prepared to flee eastwards, taking with them a seedling of the White Tree of Númenor before Sauron destroyed it, and the palantíri, gifts of the elves. When the King's forces set foot on Aman, the Valar laid down their guardianship of the world and called on Ilúvatar to intervene.[T 20]

The Downfall of Númenor and the Changing of the World.[4]

The world was changed into a sphere and the continent of Aman was removed, although a sailing route from Middle-earth to Aman, accessible to the Elves but not to mortals, persisted. Númenor was utterly destroyed, as was the fair body of Sauron; however, his spirit returned to Mordor, where he again took up the One Ring, and gathered his strength once more. Elendil, his sons and the remainder of the Faithful sailed to Middle-earth, where they founded the realms in exile of Gondor and Arnor.[T 20]

Sauron arose again and challenged them. The Elves allied with Men to form the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. For seven years, the Alliance laid siege to

Anduin River.[T 20]

Third Age

"Third Age" redirects here. For other uses, see Third Age (disambiguation).
Further information: The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's maps

The Third Age lasted for 3021 years, beginning with the first downfall of

heirs of Isildur from the fallen kingdom of Arnor wander Middle-earth, aided only by Elrond in Rivendell; but the line of rightful heirs remains unbroken throughout the age.[T 24]

This age was characterized by the waning of the

Elves. In the beginning of the Third Age, many Elves left for Valinor because they were disturbed by the recent war. However, Elven kingdoms still survived in Lindon, Lothlórien, and Mirkwood. Rivendell also became a prominent haven for the Elves and other races. Throughout the Age, they chose not to mingle much in the matters of other lands, and only came to the aid of other races in time of war. The Elves devoted themselves to artistic pleasures, and tended to the lands which they occupied. The gradual decline of Elven populations occurred throughout the Age as the rise of Sauron came to dominate Middle-earth. By the end of the Third Age, only fragments of the once-grand Elven civilization survived in Middle-earth.[T 24]

The

the Shire suffered "great loss" in what they called the Dark Plague.[T 24]

The so-called Watchful Peace began in

Men in his service.[T 24]

The main events of

Aman.[T 24]

Fourth Age

Further information: Decline and fall in Middle-earth

With the end of the Third Age began the Dominion of Men. Elves were no longer involved in Human affairs, and most Elves left for Valinor; those that remain behind "fade" and diminish. A similar fate meets the Dwarves: although

White Mountains. Together, they disappear from human history.[T 27]

Eldarion, son of Aragorn II Elessar and Arwen Evenstar, became King of the Reunited Kingdom in F.A. 120. Aragorn gave him the tokens of his rule, and then surrendered his life willingly, as his ancestors had done thousands of years before. Arwen left him to rule alone, passing away to the now-empty land of Lórien where she died.[T 28] Upon the death of Aragorn, Legolas departed Middle-earth for Valinor, taking Gimli with him and ending the Fellowship of the Ring in Middle-earth.[T 29]

Tolkien once considered writing a sequel to The Lord of the Rings, called The New Shadow, which would have taken place in Eldarion's reign, and in which Eldarion deals with his people turning to evil practices – in effect, a repetition of the history of Númenor.[T 30] In a 1972 letter concerning this draft, Tolkien mentioned that Eldarion's reign would have lasted for about 100 years after the death of Aragorn.[T 31][d] His realm was to be "great and long-enduring", but the lifespan of the royal house was not to be restored; it would continue to wane until it was like that of ordinary Men.[T 32]

Dagor Dagorath

Tolkien likened the Last Battle, Dagor Dagorath, that ends "the world" (Arda) to the Norse Ragnarök.[T 33] Engraving Battle of the Doomed Gods by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine, 1882

In a letter, Tolkien wrote that "This legendarium [The Silmarillion] ends with a vision of the end of the world [after all the ages have elapsed], its breaking and remaking, and the recovery of the Silmarilli and the 'light before the Sun' – after a final battle [Dagor Dagorath] which owes, I suppose, more to the Norse vision of Ragnarök than to anything else, though it is not much like it."[T 33] The concept of Dagor Dagorath appears in many of Tolkien's manuscripts that were published by his son Christopher in The History of Middle-earth series, but not in the published Silmarillion, where the eventual fate of Arda is left open-ended in the closing lines of the Quenta Silmarillion.[T 34]

Analysis

Creation and sub-creation

Further information: Christianity in Middle-earth § The creation

Scholars, noting that Tolkien was a devout

Brian Rosebury calls its prose "appropriately 'scriptural'".[5] Verlyn Flieger cites Tolkien's poem Mythopoeia ("Creation of Myth"), where he speaks of "man, sub-creator, the refracted light / through whom is splintered from a single White / to many hues, and endlessly combined / in living shapes".[T 35][6] She analyses in detail the successive splintering of the original created light, via the Two Lamps, the Two Trees, and the Silmarils, as the wills of different beings conflict.[7] She states that for Tolkien, this creative light was equated with the Christian Logos, the Divine Word.[6] Jane Chance remarks on the biblical theme of the conflict between the creator Eru Ilúvatar and the fallen Vala Melkor/Morgoth, mirroring that between God and Satan. Similarly, she notes, the struggles of Elves and Men corrupted by Morgoth and his spiritual descendant Sauron echo those of Adam and Eve tempted by Satan in the Garden of Eden, and the fall of man.[8]

Flieger has observed that the splintering of the created light is a process of decline and fall from a once-perfect state. She identifies a theory of decline that influenced Tolkien, namely Owen Barfield's theory of language in his 1928 book Poetic Diction. The central idea was that there was once a unified set of meanings in an ancient language, and that modern languages are derived from this by fragmentation of meaning.[9] Tolkien took this to imply the separation of peoples, in particular the complicated and repeated sundering of the Elves.[10]

A dark mythology

Further information: The Great War and Middle-earth

Scholars including Flieger have noted that if Tolkien intended to create

a mythology for England,[11] in the history of Arda as told in The Silmarillion he had made it very dark.[12] John Garth has identified his experiences in the First World War as formative; he began his Middle-earth writings at that time.[13] Flieger suggests that Middle-earth arose not only from Tolkien's own wartime experience, but out of that of his dead schoolfriends Geoffrey Bache Smith and Rob Gilson.[14] Janet Brennan Croft writes that Tolkien's first prose work after returning from the war was The Fall of Gondolin, and that it is "full of extended and terrifying scenes of battle"; she notes that the streetfighting is described over 16 pages.[15]

Greek mythology

Further information: Tolkien and the classical world

Among

Manwë, the Lord of the Air and King of the Valar, to Zeus.[16][17] Tolkien compared Beren and Lúthien with Orpheus and Eurydice, but with the gender roles reversed.[T 36] He mentioned Oedipus, too, in connection with Túrin in the Children of Húrin.[T 33] Flieger has compared Fëanor with Prometheus: they are associated with fire, and are punished for rebelling against the gods' decrees.[18]

"Imagined prehistory"

Further information:
A mythology for England
Tolkien imagined Arda as the Earth in the distant past.[T 11][1] With the loss of all its peoples except Man, and the reshaping of the continents, all that is left of Middle-earth is a dim memory in folklore, legend, and old words.[19]

Arda is summed up by the Tolkien scholar Paul H. Kocher as "our own green and solid Earth at some quite remote epoch in the past."[1] Kocher notes Tolkien's statement in the Prologue, equating Middle-earth with the actual Earth, separated by a long period of time:

Those days, the Third Age of Middle-earth, are now long past, and the shape of all lands has been changed; but the regions in which Hobbits then lived were doubtless the same as those in which they still linger: the North-West of the Old World, east of the Sea. Of their original home the Hobbits in Bilbo’s time preserved no knowledge.[T 38]

In a letter written in 1958, Tolkien states that while the time is invented, the place, planet Earth, is not (italics in original):[T 11]

I have, I suppose, constructed an imaginary time, but kept my feet on my own mother-earth for place. I prefer that to the contemporary mode of seeking remote globes in 'space'... Many reviewers seem to assume that Middle-earth is another planet![T 11]

In the same letter, he places the beginning of the Fourth Age some 6,000 years in the past:[T 11]

I imagine the gap [since

the War of the Ring and the end of the Third Age] to be about 6000 years; that is we are now at the end of the Fifth Age if the Ages were of about the same length as Second Age and Third Age. But they have, I think, quickened; and I imagine we are actually at the end of the Sixth Age, or in the Seventh.[T 11]

The Tolkien scholar

Lothlorien "until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after ... and with the passing of [Arwen] Evenstar no more is said in this book of the days of old."[3] West observes that this points up a "highly unusual" aspect of Tolkien's legendarium among modern fantasy: it is set "in the real world but in an imagined prehistory."[3] As a result, West explains, Tolkien can build what he likes in that distant past, elves and wizards and hobbits and all the rest, provided that he tears it all down again, so that the modern world can emerge from the wreckage, with nothing but "a word or two, a few vague legends and confused traditions..." to show for it.[3]

West praises and quotes Kocher on Tolkien's imagined prehistory and the implied process of fading to lead from fantasy to the modern world:[3]

At the end of his epic Tolkien inserts ... some forebodings of [Middle-earth's] future which will make Earth what it is today ... he shows the initial steps in a long process of retreat or disappearance by which all other intelligent species, which will leave man effectually alone on earth... Ents may still be there in our forests, but what forests have we left? The process of extermination is already well under way in the Third Age, and ... Tolkien bitterly deplores its climax today."[20]

The Tolkien scholar

Fall of Númenor, the world was flat. In the Fall, it became round; further geological events reshaped the continents into the Earth as it now is. All the same, the old tales survive here and there, resulting in mentions of Dwarves and Elves in real Medieval literature. Thus, Tolkien's imagined mythology "is an attempt to reconstruct our pre-history."[19] Lee and Solopova comment that "Only by understanding this can we fully realize the true scale of his project and comprehend how enormous his achievement was."[19]

The poet W. H. Auden wrote in The New York Times that "no previous writer has, to my knowledge, created an imaginary world and a feigned history in such detail. By the time the reader has finished the trilogy, including the appendices to this last volume, he knows as much about Tolkien's Middle Earth, its landscape, its fauna and flora, its peoples, their languages, their history, their cultural habits, as, outside his special field, he knows about the actual world."[e][21] The scholar Margaret Hiley comments that Auden's "feigned history" echoes Tolkien's own statement in the foreword to the second edition of Lord of the Rings that he much preferred history, true or feigned, to allegory; and that Middle-earth's history is told in The Silmarillion.[22]

Notes

  1. Brian Rosebury have noted that it makes more sense to call it the history of Arda, as Middle-earth was just one continent, and the early part of the history largely concerns another continent, Aman (Valinor), not to mention the creation and destruction of the island of Númenor.[2]
  2. Valar in Arda. The Valian years were measured in Valinor after the first sunrise, but Tolkien provided no dates for events in Aman after that point. Valian years are not used for Beleriand and Middle-earth. In the 1930s and 1940s Tolkien used a figure which fluctuated slightly around ten before settling on 9.582 solar years in each Valian year. However, in the 1950s, Tolkien decided to use a much greater value of 144 solar years per Valian year.[T 3]
  3. Akallabêth" recounts the fall of Númenor and its kings, and the rise of Gondor and Arnor.[T 23]
  4. ^ Tolkien wrote "I have written nothing beyond the first few years of the Fourth Age. (Except the beginning of a tale supposed to refer to the end of the reign of Eldarion about 100 years after the death of Aragorn. ...)"[T 31]
  5. ^ Auden only had The Lord of the Rings to go on in 1956, but he commented that "From the appendices readers will get tantalizing glimpses of the First and Second Ages" and hoped that as the "legend of these" had already been written, readers would not have to wait too long for them.[21]

References

Primary

  1. ^ a b Tolkien 1977, "Ainulindalë"
  2. ^ a b c d Tolkien 1977, ch. 1 "Of the Beginning of Days"
  3. ^ a b Tolkien 1993, "Myths Transformed", 9 "Aman"
  4. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 3 "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor"
  5. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 5 "Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië"
  6. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 7 "Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor"
  7. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 8 "Of the Darkening of Valinor"
  8. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 6 "Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor"
  9. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 11 "Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor"
  10. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 13 "Of the Return of the Noldor"
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h Carpenter 2023, #211 to Rhona Beare, 14 October 1958, last footnote
  12. ^ Tolkien 1993, "The Annals of Aman", §§ 5-10 "Of the Beginning of Time and its Reckoning"
  13. ^ a b Tolkien 1977, ch. 3 "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor"
  14. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 17 "Of the Coming of Men into the West"
  15. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 18 "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
  16. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 20 "Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad"
  17. ^ a b Tolkien 1977, ch. 22 "Of the Ruin of Doriath"
  18. ^ Tolkien 1977, ch. 23 "Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin"
  19. ^ a b Tolkien 1977, ch. 24 Of the Voyage of Earendil and the War of Wrath
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h i Tolkien 1955, Appendix B: The Tale of Years. "The Second Age"
  21. ^ Tolkien 1955, Appendix D: "Calendars"
  22. ^ Tolkien 1980, part 2: "The Second Age"
  23. Akallabêth
    "
  24. ^ a b c d e f g h i Tolkien 1955, Appendix B: The Tale of Years, "The Third Age"
  25. ^ Tolkien 1955, Appendix A part I(iv), p. 328
  26. ^ Tolkien 1980, part 3 ch. 2(i) pp. 288–289
  27. ^ Tolkien 1996, "The Making of Appendix A", '(IV) Durin's Folk', p. 278.
  28. ^ Tolkien 1955, Appendix A: The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen
  29. ^ Tolkien 1955, Appendix B: "Later events concerning the members of the Fellowship of the Ring"
  30. ^ Tolkien 1996, "The New Shadow"
  31. ^ a b Carpenter 2023, #338 to Fr. Douglas Carter, 6 June 1972
  32. ^ Tolkien 1996, "The Heirs of Elendil"
  33. ^ a b c Carpenter 2023, #131 to Milton Waldman, late 1951
  34. ^ Tolkien 1986, ch. 3: "Quenta Noldorinwa"
  35. ^ Tolkien 2001, pp. 85–90
  36. ^ a b Carpenter 2023, #154 to Naomi Mitchison, September 1954
  37. ^ Carpenter 2023, #227 to Mrs Drijver, January 1961
  38. ^ Tolkien 1954a "Prologue"

Secondary

  1. ^ a b c d Kocher 1974, pp. 8–11.
  2. ^ Rosebury 2003, pp. 89–133.
  3. ^ a b c d e West 2006, pp. 67–100
  4. ^ Shippey 2005, pp. 324–328.
  5. ^ Rosebury 1992, p. 97.
  6. ^ a b Flieger 1983, pp. 44–49.
  7. ^ Flieger 1983, pp. 6–61, 89–90, 144-145 and passim.
  8. ^ Chance 1980, p. 133.
  9. ^ Flieger 1983, pp. 35–41.
  10. ^ Flieger 1983, pp. 65–87.
  11. ^ Chance 1980, Title page and passim.
  12. ^ Flieger 2005, pp. 139–142.
  13. ^ Garth 2003, Preface, pp. xiii–xviii, 309, and passim.
  14. ^ Flieger 2001, p. 224.
  15. ^ Croft 2004, p. 18.
  16. ^ Purtill 2003, pp. 52, 131.
  17. ^ Stanton 2001, p. 18.
  18. ^ Flieger 1983, p. 95.
  19. ^ a b c d e Lee & Solopova 2005, pp. 256–257
  20. ^ Kocher 1974, p. 14.
  21. ^ a b Auden, W. H. (22 January 1956). "Books: At the End of the Quest, Victory". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  22. ^ Hiley 2006.

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