The Third Age
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The Third Age may refer to:
- University of the Third AgeUniversity of the Third AgeThe University of the Third Age is an international organisation whose aims are the education and stimulation of retired members of the community - those in the third 'age' of life. It is commonly referred to as U3A.- France :...
, a UK-based international organization - Third Age FoundationThird Age FoundationThe Third Age Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Santa Barbara, California. Its purpose is to assist mature adults in achieving longer, healthier, happier lives...
, a Santa Barbara, California based non-profit organization - Third-age Learning, the concept of lifelong learningLifelong learningLifelong learning is the continuous building of skills and knowledge throughout the life of an individual. It occurs through experiences encountered in the course of a lifetime...
, self-development and fulfilment - Third AgeThird AgeThe Third Age is a time period from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The history of Middle-earth is to be taken fictionally as a history of the real Earth....
, a period of time in J. R. Tolkien's legendarium during which the events of The Lord of the Rings take place - The Lord of the Rings: The Third AgeThe Lord of the Rings: The Third AgeThe Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is a role-playing game by EA Games for all three of the late sixth-generation game consoles. The player controls a core group of characters that are used during the adventure, levelling up according to experience gained from battles and quests.-Plot:The plot of...
, a 2004 video game for the Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and PlayStation 2] - The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (GBA)The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (GBA)The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age is a turn-based tactics game for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in 2004 by EA Games. It should not be confused with the RPG of the same name, The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, released at the same time for GameCube, PS2, and Xbox...
, a 2004 video game, different from the above, for Game Boy Advance - The Third Age (Webseries) is a 2009/10 fantasy webseries airing on Blip.TVBlip.tvThe website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions....
- The action in much of the fictional Babylon 5Babylon 5Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...
universe is said to take place at the Dawn of the Third Age of Mankind.