Template:Tolkien influences timeline

**Tolkien influences timeline**
Date	Influences	Elements^[1]^[2]^[3]
c. 1900	First World War Battle of the Somme Tanks	Mordor Metal dragons at Gondolin
	Victorian era	Bag End, Hobbit lifestyle
	Modern literature William Morris Rider Haggard's She	Dead Marshes, Mirkwood Saruman's shrivelling death
c. 1800	Antiquarianism	Poems, maps, scripts, artwork, genealogy
c. 1600	Shakespeare Macbeth	Prophecy of Witch-King's death
c. 1400	Late Medieval	Cosmology, magic, named weapons, heraldry, interlaced narrative
c. 1000	Early Medieval Crist I Beowulf Sigelwara	Eärendil, light Elves, Ents, Orcs; Rohan Silmarils, Balrogs, Harad
c. 400	Romano-British Temple of Nodens	Rings of Power; Dwarves
c. 100	Christianity The One God The Devil	Eru Ilúvatar Melkor/Morgoth
c. 400 BC	Classical era Atlantis Ring of Gyges Orpheus and Eurydice Oedipus Prometheus	Númenor The One Ring Beren and Lúthien Túrin Turambar Fëanor
c. 1000 BC	Bronze to Iron Age Uffington White Horse Hallstatt culture	Rohan's horse-culture Barrow-wight's treasure
c. 5000 BC	Neolithic Pile Houses of Europe Barrows	Esgaroth (Lake-town) Barrow-downs
150 mya	Jurassic Pterosaurs	The Nazgûl's Fell beasts

^ Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Road to Middle-Earth (Third ed.). Grafton (HarperCollins). pp. 388–398. ISBN 978-0-2611-0275-0.
^ Lee, Stuart D. (2020) A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien, Wiley: Philology 13-14 Christianity 446-460 Mythology 244-258 Old English 217-229 Modern literature 350-366 War 461-472 Invented languages 202-214 Art 487-472 Poetry 173-188
^ Shippey, Tom (2001). J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. HarperCollins. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-0261-10401-3.