AND THE REST: APPENDICES C TO F Then there’s a set of family trees, showing how Frodo, Bilbo, Merry, and Pippin were all (distantly) related, and a Shire calendar. A pronunciation guide for transliterating phonemes into runes appears, along with … Continue reading →
APPENDIX B Appendix B is an annotated timeline, essentially, recapping all of Appendix A and putting the various events in order with one another. We learn that Sauron crafted the Rings of Power in the middle of the Second Age, … Continue reading →
THE BACKSTORY OF THE HOBBIT AND SOME OTHER BITS Thrain II, Thorin’s father, survived the Battle and he had a Ring of Power, you remember. His Ring was the last of the seven dwarf-rings that Sauron didn’t have and that … Continue reading →
THE BATTLE OF AZANULBIZAR Thrain does, however, still have his father’s Rolodex. He sends messengers north to the Gray Mountains, east to the Iron Hills, west to the Blue Mountains, out to the other six Dwarf-kings and their nations, telling … Continue reading →
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 →
