User:Purlo's Grandfather@legacy41962661/Temple of Time
I have several theories here on how to answer some of the questions you may have about the Temple of Time.
Introduction
Many Zelda enthusiasts ask: Why is the Twilight Princess Temple of Time in the Sacred Grove while the Ocarina of Time Temple is in Castle Town? Still others ask: How can the TP Temple have a large dungeon behind it, while the OoT temple has no sign of such a thing? And why is there no sign of the dungeon portion of the Twilight Princess temple in the ruins? These can all be merged into one main question, which is: How can there be two Temple of Times? This itself can raise many simply asked, but not simply answered, questions, such as these: Why two? And what is the difference? And what are the purposes of each? And which is which? All of these can be answered through deep thinking and research. These are the possible answers to each of these.
Thesis
I believe that the map of Hyrule Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess are the same. But this confounds those who study the comparison between maps. However, the key is to eliminate Ordona Province, as it is not considered part of Hyrule at all by many. Then things start to fall into place. However, the Temple of Time in Twilight Princess is still not where it should be. This is where my theory comes in. Remember how in Twilight Princess, how while you were in the Sacred Grove you kind of went to a place off the map? There was the ruins of The Temple of Time. Using my map technique, Faron Woods appears to be Kokiri Forest. But, you never go to the strange part of the woods where the Temple of Time is. This might be because it was inaccessible from Kokiri Forest, and even the Lost Woods. In Twilight Princess, the Skull Kid reveals a previously blocked area leading to the ruins of the Temple of Time. This means this Temple was not able to be reached in Ocarina of Time. This also meas that the Castle Town in Twilight Princess is the same as the one in Ocarina of Time. Same applies to Hyrule Castle. There might have been two temples at the time of Ocarina of Time. So where did the Castle town one go in Twilight Princess? I believe it was destroyed. See, Ocarina of Time, according to most accomplished timeline analysts, had two timelines. Twilight Princess takes place in the "child" timeline, the one in which Link returned to his original time by putting back the Master Sword and warning Zelda about Ganondorf, which led to his exile to the Twilight Realm. Therefore, the Ocarina of Time temple might have been destroyed in order to prevent Ganon from accessing the Sacred Realm in the unlikely event of his escape from the twilight. And apparently, the Ocarina of Time Temple of Time was a portal to the Sacred Realm. Then, in order to protect the Master Sword, they built another Temple of Time in the Lost Woods, which later became the Sacred Grove.
In order to protect the Master Sword, they added on a the room to the back of the main temple, like in the original. However, things began to happen. The Oocca, who had recently been in contact with the Hylians, mysteriously stopped contacting them, and, as a final message, told the Hylians to take the Dominion Rod and keep it somewhere safe so the "messenger" could obtain it. They could they could think of no safer place than the Temple of Time. So they added a large complex to protect the rod. They also added many statues to show the messenger how to use the rod. For more training they added traps in a hallway leading to a room where he would practice matching movements with the statues. The Hylians then feared that the messenger might not come for hundreds of years. So they created another Door of Time so the messenger could go back in time to obtain the rod. But when Ganondorf invaded Hyrule, he sent Armogohma to the temple to guard the shard of the Mirror of Twilight, it partially destroyed the hallway and activated Beamos that were used as a defense system and then took up residence in the final room. That explains the large dungeon portion of the temple.
This is likely why it is not visible in the ruins. The Dominion Rod was too important to be out in the open, in case thieves found a way in, so the Sages worked with the same technique used in the original Temple of Time to create another gate to the Sacred Realm, but only partway through the temple. This would have sealed the dungeon section of the temple partway into the Sacred Realm. This theory explains two things:
The golden light streaming through the windows in the dungeon, as the A Link to the Past manual, states that the Sacred Realm's skies shine gold, not blue.
The fact that the dungeon is not visible through the ruins, as it was still in the Sacred Realm, because unless there was a portal back, say, the exit door of the dungeon, there would be no way out of the Sacred Realm.
Conclusion
In short, I believe that there are two separate Temple of Times, and that one was destroyed during the Imprisoning War, in order to keep Ganon from escaping the Sacred Realm and the other was built to protect the Master Sword and was partially sealed in the Sacred Realm in order to house the Dominion Rod. This explains the location differences between the Ocarina of Time temple and the Twilight Princess one. It also explains why the dungeon section of the Twilight Princess temple is not visible in the ruins, or the Ocarina of Time Temple.