Chapters Past

The One Ring: The King's Own
GM
Lisa
Starting Year
Fourth Age, 1 (3021 TA or 1421 SR)
Current Year
Fourth Age, 1 (3021 TA or 1421 SR)
The Fellowship
Laramie Twofoot Déor, Horseman of Rohan Vidar, Son of Veig Gilithion Thorondir Theowulf Former Fellowship Members Primrose
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Chapters Past

Chapter 1, The Fellowship Forms

• Gondor: Blood on the Snow Our first game:

Rumors of attacked and destroyed farmsteads in Anórien come to the ears of the Company, though whether the cause is Dunlending raiders, Druédan sorcery, or fell beasts is not determined. As there are many regions to search for the truth of the matter, the Prefect of Osgiliath assigned the Company to be a posse together, as a full posse of Guardsmen led by Captain Belfan, and a civilian posse led by Léora of Lamedan have already mustered. Léora has a look of disdain or suspicion against Belfan. Laramie is declared the head of the posse as he is already sworn to service, and is given bone maps with carved ridges that line up with the beacon mountains to help find vales with homesteaders. Léora's posse departs immediately while Belfan's stays on for a hearty breakfast.

The Company is lent horses from Minas Tirith. Asking about Belfan, who appears quite the braggart and Dunlending-hater, reveals the rumor that he may have killed a man, back when he was a minstrel, for playing one of his songs. In Minas Tirith, the Company also meets dwarves and elves who are beautifying the city and engaging in planning work. Their current quarrel is solved by the suggestion of a roundabout, allowing for both navigatable streets and greenery.

Although winter still clings to the land and snow lays on the ground, the four-day journey through Anórien is pleasant and without event. The first homestead encountered was deserted and highly damaged, and at the second, an attack was clear, with bodies, blood, and ruin. A dying man described an unnaturally tough and foul creature that came from "the Morgelad" a word meaning dark path or pass. After burying the dead, the Company followed the tracks and drag marks left in the snow to the Morgelad, a particularly blighted vale where the shelves of shale and twisted tree branches block out the sunlight.

At the mouth of the Morgelad, the Company encounters Imhar the Dunlending and his party, survivors of the beast's attacks. They have been hunting it for a month and a half. As the company dealt well with Imhar, and Gilithion spoke straightforwardly and fairly with Imhar, he was willing to work together. The Company was joined by Léora and her posse, who mistook their tracks for that of Belfan, crossing them at some point. She agrees to help as well, though they were tracking Belfan, whom she claims murdered her brother.

As the Company caught sight of the beast, a particularly large snow troll, they were finally joined by Captain Belfan himself, who mistook the scenario for a trap sprung against the Dunlendings. He was promptly dragged off by the snow troll, meeting a certain demise. Although his hide was indeed tough and teeth fierce, the Company prevailed against the snow troll, taking his head and hoard as proof. The Ranger Thorondir took the beast's hide. The Company convinced Imhar to journey back with them as they could retell the tale and improve relations between Dunlendings and Gondorians. Lóra's posse and the guard were all witnesses to their valor.

Upon return, the Company presented the head of the troll and the Dunlendings to the Prefect. The Prefect agreed to negotiate an audience with King Elessar for the Dunlendings and the Company, who wished that much of the hoard would go to help the survivors of the troll's attacks. With some insight, the Prefect asked the Company to stay in Minas Tirith while this was negotiated. He presented the events to the King.

While the Dunlendings were granted a formal audience, the Company was not. Upon hearing both the makeup of the Company and their success from the Prefect, the King took note. Upon learning that two of the party members were indeed known to him since his childhood and kin, the King opted for an informal audience with himself and Queen Arwen Undomiel to meet their companions and offer them a grand undertaking that perhaps only a group such as theirs might accomplish, a mission to find the lost palantiri of Arvedui.

Recent Events

The Year is now 3021, Two Years after the War of the Ring, but War is not over and Shadow still lingers in parts of Middle Earth. Much has been devastated, burned, and destroyed. Now the slow rebuilding and healing process is starting to show signs of flowering. Few lands were left unharmed by the Enemy; rebuilding efforts run from Dale to Osgiliath to Rohirric villages to the heart of the Shire.

In Arnor, the pragmatic see-it-to-believe-it Bree-landers still haven’t fully grasped that Strider’s a king and that the Rangers are nobility of old. 
Barliman Butterbur was shocked to learn that Strider was made a king - not a "mere ranger.
" For even some Rangers this has been breathtaking news; they were scattered at the time of Aragorn’s muster and not all got word of it or were able to journey South. Many are still keeping threats of Shadow and Corruption down in the North.

In these two years after the fall of Sauron:

3019

• March 25- Fall of Sauron and the Destruction of the One Ring
• May 1, 3019 - Aragorn is crowned King Elessar of the Reunited Kingdom of Arnor and Gondor; Gandalf helps Aragorn to find the sapling of the new White Tree.

• Mid-year's Day (between June and July) 3019 - Aragorn marries Arwen Undómiel.

• July 3019 - King Théoden is laid to rest beside other Kings of Rohan in Edoras. The announcement of Faramir's and Éowyn's betrothal.
 They are married later this year.
• Peace is brokered with Harad: Harad is forfeiting South Gondor and Umbar in exchange for a pardon of fighters, POWs, etc, allowed to return home unmolested

• Thorin III Stonehelm and Bard II, fast friends and allies, are rebuilding Erebor and Dale.

• As a chief commander for King Elessar, Faramir has been tasked with clearing out Minas Morgul and the lost territories of Gondor and act as march-wardens. His and Eowyn's hands are full.

• November 19, 3019 - Battle of Bywater; death of Saruman and Wormtongue; the end of the War of the Ring.


3020 - some events may not have happened depending on our start month. These may help for context purposes.

• Elessar and Eomer rode out against remnants of Mordor

• Spring 3020 - Samwise Gamgee marries Rosie Cotton and together they move to Bag End.

• The Sea of Rhun is proving to be hotly contested vs. the Easterlings

• Thranduil settles his borders at the Mountains of Mirkwood to help his own people thrive.

• Legolas and Gimli share their travels through the Glittering Caves and Fangorn Forest. Legolas is now returning to Mirkwood to recruit elves to heal Ithilien while Gimli is setting out to recruit members of Durin’s Folk to go to the Glittering Caves.

• Durin VII, a descendant of Thorin III, has expressed his wish to return to Moria soon.


3021

• Fourth Age - March 25 3021
• Spring 3020 - Samwise Gamgee marries Rosie Cotton and together they move to Bag End.

• 3021 - Éomer marries Imrahil's daughter, Lothíriel of Dol Amroth.
• September 22, 3021 - Bilbo marks his 131st birthday, surpassing the Old Took.

• September 29, 3021 - Elrond, Galadriel, Gandalf, Frodo and Bilbo depart from the Grey Havens and go to the Undying Lands.

• Celeborn assumes full rulership of Lothlorien after Galadriel’s departure. He plans on extending domain to South Mirkwood and is currently holding both sides of the Anduin.

• The twins Elladan and Elrohir assume a joint lordship of Rivendell in Elrond’s departure. Both expressed wishing to clean the land of Arnor and continue to work with the Rangers. They also expressed a project to translate the works of Rivendell’s library for the use of Men. Neither has stated whether he wishes to choose mortality like Arwen.

• October 6, 3021 - Samwise returns to Bag End.