<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Fourth Age is one of the divisions of history in J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle - earth . Because most of his fiction deals with earlier ages, there is relatively little material on the ages that followed the Third Age . </P> <P> The Fourth Age followed the defeat of Sauron and the destruction of his One Ring, but did not officially begin until after the Bearers of the Three Rings left Middle - earth for Valinor, the' Uttermost West' . </P> <P> Some events of the first centuries of the Fourth Age can be gleaned from the Appendices in The Lord of the Rings, and follow below . </P>

What happened to middle earth after the lord of the rings
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