About Differences in Human and Dwarven Ages (and Dwarven Adolescence)
After I started writing my first (now already deleted) Hobbit-related fan fiction I found a formula for how Dwarven and human ages are related, and from now on I’m using it as a base when it comes to Fíli and Kíli’s maturity. And probably Ori’s too, as I’ll go along with the film version in which Ori is described as youngest of the Company.
The formula is this: D = 4,2H – 44
Where “D” means Dwarven age and “H” means human age.
For young dwarves’ ages there’s another, simpler formula, D = 2H
With some help from math I made a quick calculation that 2H = 4,2H – 44 when H = 20, and from that I made a conclusion that, according to this, Dwarves would reach their physical maturity at the age of 40. But, just like parents in our world don’t usually think of their children as adults when they reach age of 18, a 40-years-old dwarf is still considered a youth who still needs some looking-after.
Now, Gimli, at age of 62, was still considered too young to take part in the Quest of Erebor, but Kíli, at the age of 77, was allowed to take part (and so was Ori, who’s at least one year younger than Kíli). So, when it comes to mental maturity of young dwarves, it’s got to be between years 63 and 76. Based on those facts I’ve decided that that age is 70. Then it’d take into account both that Gimli is too young to make a decision about the Quest himself and that Ori might be more than one year younger than Kíli. To make matters simpler it could be said that a 40-70 years old dwarf would be somewhat equivalent to what we see as a teenager.
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