Wierd Question: When Jordan describes age of legends..........????

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and is it just me or does the 7th get the short shift being only a scant hundred or so years long?
 
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Well.. faster and faster progress makes ages go by quicker. 50,000 years of farming and hunting, 5,000 years of village building, then bronze age, then iron age, then the enlightenment, then the industrial revolution, then computers..

All faster and faster. Next is the nanotech age or gene splicing ages.. who knows!
 

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Maybe they came from another dimension using the Book of Translation?

Tbh, I'd assumed that was the case as soon as that was brought up as existing as an option.
 

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Wasn't that stated somewhere explicitly, was it? :scratch Probably I'm remembering wrongly.
 
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I'm thinking that the loss of technology from end of War of Power and the Breaking of the World is from the destruction caused by balefire and the destruction of entire cities by insane male channelers. If somehow the founders of certain technologies were destroyed by a strong enough blast of balefire, they could cease to exist b4 they invented them, resulting in the loss of many objects of daily use. Of course it is highly unlikely, close to impossible, but it may be possible. :look:
 

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I think it was an intentional parallel, theres a good site that lists all the real-world references in WoT and there's quite a few. I personally think RJ was doing a bit of a Tolkien and writing a mythology for our world
 
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I personally think RJ was doing a bit of a Tolkien and writing a mythology for our world

I like this. In tolkien's mythology, there was the years of the Lamps, years of the Trees, and the Years of the Sun before the first 3 ages, and the current age is assumed to be the 4th. Tolkien also has an apocalypse story for "the unknown future". That's 7 ages, and a Breaking of the World (or two, if you count the War of Wrath or the War of the Ring in LotR/Silmarillion) in Robert Jordan language. Plus the Dark One (Morgoth, in Tolkien) escaping prison.

I've always liked realistic mythology approach to literature, and it's perhaps something I like about WoT.
 

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I like this. In tolkien's mythology, there was the years of the Lamps, years of the Trees, and the Years of the Sun before the first 3 ages, and the current age is assumed to be the 4th. Tolkien also has an apocalypse story for "the unknown future". That's 7 ages, and a Breaking of the World (or two, if you count the War of Wrath or the War of the Ring in LotR/Silmarillion) in Robert Jordan language. Plus the Dark One (Morgoth, in Tolkien) escaping prison.

I've always liked realistic mythology approach to literature, and it's perhaps something I like about WoT.

Except that Tolkien thought that the Ages had grown shorter and that we were perhaps in the fifth or sixth.
 
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Im only at book seven, and I read only the first post just in case. But I felt this exact thing, the decriptions during Rands time in the dreams in book for are awfully similar to somet things like us.

I like this because it really gives the feel of a "wheel" things in the past being MORE advanced than what is now. I like it a lot.

I hope I learn more about this concept as I progress through the series.
 
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I personally enjoy all the similarities between TWoT and our world. It definitely makes you wonder!
 
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I feel like we're all fast approaching a world of genetically enhanced, computer operated, intelligent life.. I realize this is fantasy, not science fiction, but the Age of Legends just wreaks of science fiction to me. I can't come to much of a conclusion about what age our own represents, I sort of feel like like it makes sense that we're on the cusp of self destruction and being ushered into a new age. If we're blurring the wheel of time and the real world, which as I take it from R.J's commentary was his intent.

Makes me think...
 

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The differentiation between fantasy and science fiction is blurry, and at times, pointless (it tends to be justified either with reference to themes or with more cosmetic aspects, but they often run over into each other)

The One Power is an observable scientific fact, its presence is quantifiable, and it acts according to rules that can (probably) be expressed mathematically. Lastly, angreals of all manners are technological artifacts.

As a wise man said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
 
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