Third Age

noun

1. old age, esp when viewed as an opportunity for travel, further education, etc

Example Sentences

Ken Dychtwald, chief executive of AgeWave and co-author of the book “What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life’s Third Age,” said that a retirement that could last decades is a relatively new phenomenon in history as people are living longer than ever before.

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“Deep in the history of Middle-earth, Volume 12, he confirms that Olórin had already visited Middle-earth. So Tolkien left it open that Gandalf may have come earlier than the Third Age,” he says.

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“He has a somewhat wry and sardonic relationship with the characters in the Third Age,” he says.

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The version of the wizard seen in “The Rings of Power” is not the same as the one readers and film fans know from the Third Age.

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For instance, in the Third Age, the five Istari are forbidden from destroying Sauron with their magic.

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