How old are Anakin and Padme in ROTS?

Perhaps, Anakin was 9 years old in TPM . . . only somewhat shy of his 10th birthday. And ten years later in AOTC, he had passed his 20th birthday.

 

Anakin is 23, Padme is 27.

Why is there still confusion? A number of people have already explained it.

In TPM Anakin is Nine (and a percentage over 1/2)

Then *roughly* a decade later, AotC happens and he's just hit twenty. It's not like everything happens *exactly, to the day, ten years after TPM*...

The Clone Wars rage for three years, so by the time RotS rolls around, he's twenty three.

The age difference between Padme and Anakin is about 4 years and a couple of months - NOT five years. Not that it really matters...

As for the Phantom Menace novelisation, the exact phrasing is:

"Maybe even next year, when he reached the age of ten"

That's not the same as "Maybe in a year's time, when he reached the age of ten"

If I am born in March, and I'm 9 while it's November - I am still "ten next year", even though my birthday is only 4 months off.

As for Han Solo and Leia, in ANH Leia's nineteen and Han is twenty-seven - though Harrison Ford was in his thirties.

 

i cant believe this is so complicated to understand

padme was 14 in TPM you add the 13 years since then and she is : 27

anakin was 9 in TPM,you add the 13 years since then and he is : 22

 

Well it's bound to be complicated if people only read what they want to. The explanation has already been given enough times.

Anakin was nine and not far off ten in TPM.

Then, ten years later, he's twenty in AotC - does "ten years" mean that AotC's first scene takes place ten years TO THE DAY after the last scene of TPM?

No.

It's ten years and a couple/few months - should the characters have to say

"I've not seen her in ten years and two months, master"

in casual conversation? No, you round down. (Or, had it been 9 years and 10 months, round up)

 

well,if you are 9 years and 363 days old then you are still 9 years old.

and anakin was 19 in AOTC,not 20.

 

So how old is Han Solo really in ANH?

28 is the official age in ANH. This was confirmed in the Han Solo Trilogy, which begins with him at age eighteen and ends at twenty eight. Covers a decade. Harrison Ford was about 32, I think, when he did ANH. The novelization for ANH does not give an age.

 

And if you can find where I disputed that, I'll be surprised.

 

Anakin was nine and not far off ten in TPM.

that quote is yours.

GL says 10 years,why do you twist it to make it 10 years and a month or things like that ?? if the maker says 10 years then is 10 years.

 

i dont know but aparently luke didnt get his looks from his dad

 

Look at first part of the quote again.

"Anakin was nine and not far off ten in TPM"

To use your own words, "If you are 9 years and 363 days year old then you are still nine years old", which is true - but you are NOT far off ten, which is what I said in the first place.

And as for George Lucas, well if you think when he says "So AotC takes place about ten years after TPM" he means "exactly ten years to the day" then... well, whatever. I prefer to take into account teh "about", as well as the fact that not everyone in the universe is born on the same day.

The movie novelisation says that he is twenty.

 

The movie novelisation says that he is twenty.

i dont trust books.


the movie novelisation for ROTS uses crap like vaapad and soresu.

the movie novelisation for ROTS says that dooku was afraid of obi wan.




but its OK i admit my mistake and i'll give you this one.

 

Hey, I spent waaaay to much time trying to figure out how old Darth Vader was at the end of ROTJ to be called a whiner. A tad obsessive, maybe,....So he was 45 at the end of ROTJ? That Dark Side influence is not good for keeping one's looks.

 

Where are you getting Anakin's age in TPM from?

the novel i presume?

 

How can something so simple go 3 pages long?

Anakin
TPM: 9
AOTC: 19
ROTS: 22

Padme
TPM: 14
AOTC: 24
ROTS: 27

Thus,

Anakin 22
Padme 27

Nuff' said.

 

I think at this point, we are going to have to agree to disagree. I personally am in the camp of Anakin being 20 in AOTC and 23 in ROTS, and Padme being 24 in AOTC and 27 in ROTS.

As far as Han and Leia, they were about 9 years apart in age, making him 28 in ANH and her 19 (again, IMO).

 

Anakin is either 22 or 23 in ROTS and Padmé is either 27 or 28 in ROTS.

 

I think this is one of those threads when people only read the first post...

 

Anakin is 5 years behing in TPM however only 4 years in ROTS. This is due to the fact that the Tatooine revolves around the sun at a slightly quicker rate than that of Naboo does around its sun. Anakin's age is based on Tatooine time because he records were lost when he was sold to the Huts. Anakin was able to gain a year in the ten year period. Anakin and Padme would have been the same age in 40 more years if she hadn't died. However, because Tatooine has 2 suns, Anakin could decide to use the second calculation bu then he would only be 12. Only the people on Mos Eisly use the age metric of the second sun.

Problem solved

 

Problem solved


But youre forgetting about the dual Tatoonie leap years.

 

Okay...now I see how you guys were able to extend this to 3 pages

 

I think people are just being silly.

At the end of the TPM novelization, it says that Anakin will turn 10 next year. R.A. Salvatore chose to leave that part out and just say that Anakin was nine going on ten, in TPM and turns 20 in Chapter 1 of the AOTC book. Shmi is talking to Owen and notes that it is Anakin's birthday, that day. One month later is when the film begins. Three years pass and Anakin's 23, which is mentioned in both LOE and ROTS.

Blame Salvatore for going against what Terry Brooks wrote.

 

Anakin was about the same age as Luke in TESB... that is 22 years old... By the time of ROTJ, which occurred one year after TESB, Luke turned 23 years old... strange coincidence isn't it???

On the other hand, Padme was about 27 years old... She was 5 years older than Anakin...

So now, you all know why Beru replies that Luke has much of his own father????

Anakin had a premonition of his beloved one dying at childbirth and went on to figure out how to stop it, making an allegiance with the Sith, and oath that wasn't supposed to be made... As for Luke, he had a vision of his friends suffering and runned to help them when he was not supposed to go because he hadn't finished his training... They both had not much patience and had to much anger... Never their mind on where they were, always thinking about the future... What they were doing... Adventure... Excitement, and reckless...

About the anger topic... I think there was much anger in Anakin, than in Luke...

 

i think that mustafar's fire rather than the dark side influence

 

Anakin is 20 in AOTC, and Shmi lights a candle for him. ZSHe goes outside and cries because she misses him.

Padme is 24 in AOTC.

Anakin is 23 in ROTS, and Padme is either 27 or 28. It's Padme's age that i9sn't cemented, but in TPM novel, she thinks about the fact at she's been fourteen for about 4 months. And a queen for about three. So I would guess she's about 4.5 years older than Anakin. Since in TPM, his 10 birthday is just a couple of months off.

Anakin 23 (not at ALL in question), and Padme, 27-28.

 

Yeah, but Palpy never falls into a lava pit and he ends up looking like mid-70's Keith Richards. And twenty years after the Mustafar incient, Anakin sports the pasty Humpty Dumpty look. ick.