How quickly does time Pass in the Land?

[A Gunslinger]

Is it a decade per day of our calandar? 7 years? Somethins similar? I am away from my books and can't look it up right now.

The reason I ask is theat if 10 years have passed since the end of the 2nd crhonicles, A LOT of time has passed and alot must have happened. How many of the seven have been solved?

At most were are talking about almost 150 K years...unless the law of time has been perverted as well as the law of death....thoughts?

[Myste]

I don't have it figured out mathematically, but ten years passed in Covenant's time between the 1st & 2nd Chrons, and that was equal to roughly 3000 years in The Land.

I don't do math unless I've got a gun to my head ( Oh, just try it, Gunslinger!). If you figure it out, let us all know!

[wayfriend]

The most exact ratio I can recall is:

10 years here == ~3500 years there

which yields

1 day here == ~1 year there (which I find interesting).

No one says that this is constant, however.

Also, we have some data that says from Chron II to Chron II is about the same amount of time as Chron I to Chron II.

[dlbpharmd]

SRD said that the same amount of time will pass b/w 2nd Chronicles and 3rd Chronicles.

The time ratio has always been confusing to me. I don't think the 1 day:1 year is correct - 40 years passed b/w LFB and TIW and TC only spent about 2 weeks back in the "real world." Seven years passed b/w TIW and TPTP and Covenant spent at most 2-3 days back in the real world.

All of which makes me think, this would be a great question for the GI.

[A Gunslinger]

SRD said that the same amount of time will pass b/w 2nd Chronicles and 3rd Chronicles.

The time ratio has always been confusing to me. I don't think the 1 day:1 year is correct - 40 years passed b/w LFB and TIW and TC only spent about 2 weeks back in the "real world." Seven years passed b/w TIW and TPTP and Covenant spent at most 2-3 days back in the real world.

All of which makes me think, this would be a great question for the GI.

tHE gi?

[Myste]

Gradual Interview (on SRD's web page)

[A Gunslinger]

ah. I am a peerless goon.

[Myste]

ah. I am a peerless goon.

better peerless than beerless, my friend...

[A Gunslinger]

(hic!) yep!

[tonyz]

If you look at the early chapters of the Illearth War, Covenant spends a little more than a month recovering and/or wandering around in a daze, before he finally tries barhopping. During this time, forty years pass in the Land.

And the beginning of PTP takes about a week, during which time seven years pass in the Land.

So the year-for-a-day thing works out pretty well in the First Chronicles as well.

The other thing is, the Chronicles use a lot of Christian symbology (albeit not much terminology, which makes it hard to recognize); and there are several passages in the Old Testament which use the year-for-a-day principle (noticeably Ezekiel). I don't think this is coincidence here; I think missionary's son Donaldson knew exactly what he was doing with the time intervals.

[I'm Murrin]

I had been under the impression that the times in the first chrons were a little shorter than that, tonyz, but when I used one-year-one-day for the second chrons 10-year gap it was about right - just over three and a half thousand years.

[danlo]

In the similar old thread I recently bumped

Since roughly 3500 years passed between 1st and 2nd Chronicles in the Land, while 10 years passed in the "real world", I guess that 1 day = 1 year would not be too far off.

I think that was, pretty much, the concensus...

[dlbpharmd]

dlbpharmd: What is the time ratio between the "real world" and The Land?

It is roughly one day in the "real world" to one year in the Land--give or take a little poetic license.

(07/09/2004)

And there we have it, folks. I guess it's the "poetic license" that's always thrown me off.