Our past did end in fire and rage
Out from the ash and bitter smoke
We look to hope and keep it close
As all did see our near to end
Yet live to see this, our Ninth Age
- A reproduction of an Equitan tapestry,
itself believed to be a copy of an ancient dwarven carving
and poem dating from the first century A.S.
StinaZala -
What is A.S.?