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And I’m not sure that we still know the exact timeline between ROTJ and TFA. But it goes something like this. Luke the Jedi travels around and learns more. He does a lot of research between ROTJ and TFA to find Ach-To. But that could be after Kylo’s turn.
Sometime when Kylo is old enough to be rebellious and a troublesome child, Luke decides to start a new Jedi academy. How many students he takes is unknown, but it appears to be about 20 (assuming half become the Knights of Ren). Ben appears to be in his late teens during the confrontation in the hut that ends in the destruction of the academy. My guess is that Ben was 15 when Luke started and 19 when he turned. So what did Luke do for those 15 years before that? He didn’t just do nothing. I’m sure he helped Leia build the Republic. He probably consolidated all the Jedi lore he could find before starting the school. We know what he did in the Legends timeline and I would assume since the new timeline is often very similar that his did something similar and went to Coruscant and scoured the Jedi Temple and whatever Palpatine had stolen from it. I would also imagine he encountered some of the failed Jedi (Like Kanan from Rebels). From his attitude in TLJ, it sounds like he found enough to train new students in the Jedi way. He learned that Palpatine was Darth Sideous indicating that he found some records from the last days of the purge or was informed by Yoda or Obi-wan.
Luke doesn’t appear to have had many failures before Kylo turned. Yoda and Obi-wan may have been his biggest advisors on his training program. The only thing we can say for certain, is that Luke and Yoda did not communicate AFTER Kylo’s turn. Luke blocked himself of, ran to Ach-To (maybe having to find it first) and hid, blocking himself of from the force. Either Yoda left him alone or couldn’t reach him. What is clear is that Luke learned a lot about the Jedi from before the purge and became very disillusioned with their methods. Yoda never disagrees with him, only tells him he should pass on his failures as a teaching tool to help Rey. I don’t think Yoda and Luke had been silence since ROTJ, just since Kylo’s fall.
I think it might be safe to say that Luke’s curmudgeonliness is likely the result of the same thing that led to Anakin’s fall - attachment. Kylo was his nephew. Luke as a new teacher could have also gotten very attached to his other students so when one half turned to the dark side and killed the other half, he went to a very dark place and let grief take over. I saw a Luke in need of healing and between Rey and Yoda they brought him back. The Luke we saw in ROTJ was riding high on success, but even so he turned dark when Vader threatened Leia. The old Jedi admonishment against attachment is not something he learned. So it is very consistent with his character for him to become attached to his students, especially his nephew and that attachment would derail him as easily as Vader did in threatening to turn Leia. The grief knocks aside all his success and defeatist Luke is back. And this ties in to Kylo’s story. Kylo is trying to be this big dark bad guy so he kills his father (it is Kylo’s belief that the past must die - I have no idea why people ascribe this to Rian Johnson and the entire story of TLJ). But in so doing, he is more of a wreck than ever. And given the opportunity, he can’t even fire on his mother. Only in Killing Snoke does his resolve become clear and all doubt melt away. But Kylo, like Luke and Anakin, has attachment as a weakness. Skywalkers seem to be attached to their family. Suddenly Rey seeming to be a nobody isn’t such a bad or strange thing. She is an anti-Kylo. No attachments, no family, no urge to turn to the dark side (where Kylo idolizes his grandfather and is trying to be dark and evil and not doing an incredibly good job of it). My early prediction for the finale of IX is that she and Kylo will turn out to be yin/yang for the force and end up forming a new Jedi order together.