Hobbit and human age equivalences
Mar. 17th, 2004 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanHas someone else worked this out? I figure that if you set the "coming of age" years as equivalents, you can pretty much calculate how "old" a hobbit is. You get different numbers if you use a human coming of age as 21 or as 25, of course, but 21 is more likely what Tolkein was thinking, since that's the closer to the age Aragorn is when he gets told about his heritage (he was 20, but he'd been away a while.)
I've got a table (yay Excel) but the quick decade years are
Hobbit//Human (21)////Human (25)
////1///////0.6////////0.8
///10///////6.4////////7.6
///20//////12.7///////15.2
///30//////19.1///////22.7
///40//////25.5///////30.3
///50//////31.8///////37.9
///60//////38.2///////45.5
///70//////44.5///////53.0
///80//////50.9///////60.6
///90//////57.3///////68.2
//100//////63.6///////75.8
//110//////70.0///////83.3
//120//////76.4///////90.9
//130//////82.7///////98.5
I tend to like the first translation when I'm writing Sam and Frodo as youngsters, and the second one when I'm thinking of old Bilbo. (82 isn't old! My Mom's nearly that age!)
I've got a table (yay Excel) but the quick decade years are
Hobbit//Human (21)////Human (25)
////1///////0.6////////0.8
///10///////6.4////////7.6
///20//////12.7///////15.2
///30//////19.1///////22.7
///40//////25.5///////30.3
///50//////31.8///////37.9
///60//////38.2///////45.5
///70//////44.5///////53.0
///80//////50.9///////60.6
///90//////57.3///////68.2
//100//////63.6///////75.8
//110//////70.0///////83.3
//120//////76.4///////90.9
//130//////82.7///////98.5
I tend to like the first translation when I'm writing Sam and Frodo as youngsters, and the second one when I'm thinking of old Bilbo. (82 isn't old! My Mom's nearly that age!)
