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| | Exploring Tolkien's Fourth Age |
 | | Thorin III was born in the year 2866 of the Third Age, and he would have been 153 years old when his father died in the War of the Ring. |
 | | Borlas, the aged protagonist of The New Shadow, could smell "the old evil", which apparently was the evil represented by the true Orcs, former servants of Sauron, and other creatures. |
 | | It is most likely, because of the power exhibited by the Barrow-wight which captured Frodo, that the spirits were those of corrupted elves (enslaved by Melkor in the First Age) or lesser Maiar, not as powerful as, say, a Balrog, nor even as the Nazgul, but more powerful than the spirits of Men. |
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