DWARVES MORE: MORE AWESOME So okay, Thror, the old king, was elderly and tired and had been wandering Middle-Earth with his son and retainers for years. One day he takes his son aside and gives him the last great family … Continue reading →
MOST OF THE HISTORY OF THE DWARVES We start with a skewed history of the Dwarves, and we know it’s skewed because right off the bat Tolkien warns us that “strange tales” are told of them, but “since these things … Continue reading →
MORE ROHAN: SOME FOLK TALES AND ANECDOTES Then we get a few stories about the Rohirrim. During the original migration into the North, funny story, there used to be a particular dragon up in the mountains north of Mirkwood (notoriously … Continue reading →
ROHAN: GONDOR BUT WITH HORSES? The story of Rohan starts a long ways away from Rohan, in (oddly enough) Gollum’s homeland. You may or may not recall that Smeagol, who became Gollum, dwelled along the banks of the Anduin river, … Continue reading →
At this point in Appendix A there’s this whole little story about Aragorn and Arwen, basically a biography of Aragorn. And it’s extremely longwinded, so I’m going to go fast but it’s still going to be long. We start with … Continue reading →
MORE GONDOR, MORE PROBLEMS! So, in the previous entry Gondor went from a nation that covered basically half the map to a little stub of its former self, with its former capital ruined, its biggest military base captured by the … Continue reading →
GONDOR: A PRETTY SAD HISTORY The Appendix A history of Gondor follows, and it’s… not dull, exactly. Gondor has a long history of wars internal and external, expansion and contraction. But in general it just seems less directly related to … Continue reading →
