[Ginkasa]

It doesn't help that I'd accepted that it all really doesn't fit on a single (even branched) timeline. My thoughts and preferred "timelines" are thus:

1) The games separated into completely separate timelines (not branched; totally disconnected). So, LoZ and AoL are in one timeline (along with the Oracle games), the Four Swords games are in another, and then everything else in another, branched timeline.

2) There is no timeline. Each game can connect with multiple other games without having to be connected to them all at once, if that makes sense. I.E. ALttP, TWW, and TP can each take place after OoT, but you don't have to reconcile them.

I posted it in more detail on Zelda Universe once. My username is Ginkasa over there, too, if you want to look it up.