Elder Days YL 3449-3450

The VY 3449-3450 is known as the last years of the Spring of Arda. In Valian Year 1900, the Two Lamps Illuin and Ormal were raised. This brought instense light unto the world and the light was greatest at Almaren, island of the Valar in the center of the world. In the VY or Year of the Lamps (YL) 3400, Melkor came back to Arda and built up his fortress of Utumno in the Northeastern part of the world. In the year 3449 Melkor drafted his plans to throw down the Lamps and on YL 3450 he went to war in an effort to throw them down. He eventually succeeded, causing mass extinction and destruction to the world.