According to this website (http://www.thetolkienforum.com/showthread.php?2617-What-is-a-dwarf-s-life-span) which is not turning blue-and-underlined so you can click the link for some reason (sorry about that), the average Tolkien Dwarf lives to be about 250. If the average human lives to be about 85, then you can calculate your Dwarf Age using the formula
250/85 = d/h
or
2.94 = d/h
where "d" is Dwarf Age and "h" is Human Age.
I'm 20, so my Dwarf Age is
d = 20*2.94 = about 59.
Various Tolkien Appendices tell us the approximate ages of all the Dwarves in The Hobbit, so we can calculate their corresponding Human Ages.
Thorin is about 66.
Dwalin is about 57.
Balin is about 60.
Fili is about 27.
Kili is about 26.
Oin is about 56.
Gloin is about 53.
The ages of Dori, Ori, Nori, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur are unknown.
In the movie, Balin looks way older than Thorin. Maybe he has a Benjamin Button thing going on. Or maybe Thorin just moisturizes and colors his hair.
In the movie, Balin looks way older than Thorin. Maybe he has a Benjamin Button thing going on. Or maybe Thorin just moisturizes and colors his hair.
At the time of The Hobbit, Gimli would be about 20. My age! So it would still be all right for him to ask me out without it being weird. He can be shorter than me, but not shorter AND younger. I'm trying not to be what "The IT Crowd" calls a "small-person racist."
At the time of The Fellowship, Gimli is about 47, so it would be weird for him to ask me out. According to "Parks and Recreation," a guy can ask a girl out if
her age = his age/2 + 7.
So if Gimli did want to ask me out at the time of The Fellowship, I would have to be at least 47/2 + 7 = 30 years old, which I'm not.
I'm going by age in the book, not the movie, by the way. In the movie, we have Frodo and Co. leaving the Shire right after Bilbo's Party, whereas in the book, there's a 17 year gap between Bilbo's Party and leaving the Shire. They left it out of the movie, understandably, because the movie was already 3 hours long, and they can't have everything in there. But even if they had included the gap, Frodo would probably still have looked the same, because the Ring delays old age. If there's ever a remake of the movie, I'd like to see Tom Bombadil, but in the meantime, I'm perfectly happy with the movie we have now.
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