The Starry Mantle posted this on May 15th, 2013.
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Fram son of Frumgar was the fifth Lord of the Éothéod, a group of Northmen who were the ancestors of the Men of Rohan. The seat of Fram’s chieftainship was the fortified town of Framsburg, set at the northern end of the Vales of Anduin in the shadow of the Grey Mountains. In those days of the mid-Third Age, the Grey Mountains were terrorised by Scatha, a great long-worm. Scatha ravaged both the Dwarves of the Grey Mountains and the Men of the Éothéod alike, and he amassed a mighty hoard. Fram, heroic chieftain of his people, went forth and slew Scatha, but little is known of their battle. Once the long-worm was dead, the Dwarves of the Grey Mountains announced their claim to the dragon’s hoard, but Fram sent them instead Scatha’s teeth, with a message saying: “Jewels such as these you will not match in your treasuries, for they are hard to come by.” This angered the Dwarves and led to a feud between the two peoples. According to some accounts, the Dwarves took their vengeance by slaying Fram for his insult, and there was little love thereafter between the Éothéod and the Dwarves.
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The Starry Mantle posted this on May 15th, 2013.
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Fram son of Frumgar was the fifth Lord of the Éothéod, a group of Northmen who were the ancestors of the Men of Rohan. The seat of Fram’s chieftainship was the fortified town of Framsburg, set at the northern end of the Vales of Anduin in the shadow of the Grey Mountains. In those days of the mid-Third Age, the Grey Mountains were terrorised by Scatha, a great long-worm. Scatha ravaged both the Dwarves of the Grey Mountains and the Men of the Éothéod alike, and he amassed a mighty hoard. Fram, heroic chieftain of his people, went forth and slew Scatha, but little is known of their battle. Once the long-worm was dead, the Dwarves of the Grey Mountains announced their claim to the dragon’s hoard, but Fram sent them instead Scatha’s teeth, with a message saying: “Jewels such as these you will not match in your treasuries, for they are hard to come by.” This angered the Dwarves and led to a feud between the two peoples. According to some accounts, the Dwarves took their vengeance by slaying Fram for his insult, and there was little love thereafter between the Éothéod and the Dwarves.
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The Starry Mantle posted this on May 1st, 2013.
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The races of Elves and Men have long shared friendship in the northwest of Middle-earth. The two kindreds first came into contact long ago, in the First Age of the world, when the Edain, the Fathers of Men, came over the Blue Mountains and down into Beleriand. Finrod, the Elven king of Nargothrond, first of all the Noldor encountered Men. Coming upon a band of them encamped for the night and asleep, he stole among them and, taking up a harp, began to play with elvish skill. The men awoke, and hearing Finrod’s beautiful music, thought they lingered in some fair dream. Finrod remained with the men for some time, befriending them, learning their language and teaching them the tongue of the Grey Elves. In all the long years since, the Elves and the faithful descendants of the Edain have had friendship, and their fates are intertwined.
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The Starry Mantle posted this on April 24th, 2013.
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The Shire of the Hobbits was largely unregulated, lacking a central authority and governed for the most part by common sense and common understanding. The longstanding peace was maintained by a loose organisation of volunteer hobbits called the Watch. The larger branch of the Watch was composed of the Bounders, who patrolled the borders of the Shire, but domestic matters (or “Inside Work”) were tended to by a smaller branch, the Shirriffs. In all there were twelve voluntary Shirriffs, three for each of the Shire’s four Farthings, and the Mayor of Michel Delving held the position of First Shirriff. Since the Hobbits of the Shire were for the greater part peace-loving (no murder had ever been done in the Shire), the duties of the Shirriffs were mostly limited to settling minor disputes, acting as haywards, and deputising hobbits to serve as Bounders. The Shirriffs wore no special uniform, but each wore a feather in his cap to distinguish him from the general Hobbitry.
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The Starry Mantle posted this on April 17th, 2013.
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In the rugged moorland between the Rangers’ hidden fastness of Esteldín and the Dwarves’ mining-outpost of Othrikar is a rocky height upon which is built a beacon. Stone pillars support a roof over carefully stacked kindling, ready to be set alight should any danger threaten either the Rangers or the Dwarves. At need, a signal fire visible from the Kingsfell beacon can be lit in either settlement, alerting the beacon-keeper of impending peril.
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The Starry Mantle posted this on April 10th, 2013.
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To the Elves, the Golden Wood of Lothlórien was a beautiful haven utterly unstained by evil, but to the mortal Men of Rohan who dwelt to the south, it was a fearful place shrouded in superstition. Dwimordene they called it, and in their tales filled it with figments of sorcery, phantoms and apparitions. Great was their mistrust of these fay beings and of the Sorceress of the Golden Wood, a weaver of nets and delusions that could ensnare the unwary. Indeed, Lórien was a perilous realm, for within it was the power to change the hearts of those who entered. But as Samwise perceived, the only peril to be found in the Golden Wood was that which the visitor to that land brought within himself.
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The Starry Mantle posted this on March 27th, 2013.
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Lying between the Chetwood on the west and the Weather Hills on the east were the Midgewater Marshes, a deserted wetland. In early October IIIA 3018, Strider led his hobbit companions into the marshes in order to leave the Great East-West Road behind them and avoid the Black Riders pursuing them. The hobbits found the marshes to be very unpleasant: the paths between the boggy pools shifted dangerously and the whole area was home to viciously biting midges and abominable cricket-like insects that Sam named Neekerbreekers for their incessant, maddening chirping.
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The Starry Mantle posted this on March 20th, 2013.
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The Hill-men were the descendants of the indigenous Men who inhabited Middle-earth before the return of the Númenóreans. The Dunlendings were one branch of Hill-men; the ancestors of the Men of Bree, another. In the Third Age, the Hill-men of northern Eriador became subjects of the kingdom of Arnor, but after Arnor fell, the Hill-men of Rhudaur turned to evil and allied with the realm of Angmar. In LOTRO, Turbine has presented some of the descendants of Rhudaurian Hill-men as having remained in the service of Angmar (such as the Corcur and the Trév Duvárdain), while others (such as the Trév Gallorg, and presumably additional clans, though we do not meet them) have returned to an independent, nomadic lifestyle in the very shadow of the land of Angmar. According to the LOTRO Lorebook, these clans established a neutral settlement, ”a great tent city they named Aughaire, the Meeting-place. Here, the clans trade in furs, meats and produce, medicines, and slaves.”
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The Starry Mantle posted this on March 6th, 2013.
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Between the rivers Hoarwell and Loudwater lay the Trollshaws, a hilly country cloaked in dark beech woods. At one time the kingdom of Rhudaur held sway here, but the Men of that land fell under the dominion of Angmar. By the end of the Third Age, Angmar and Rhudaur had fallen; and though the sinister-looking ruins of Rhudaur could still be seen looming on the hilltops, their builders were long gone. At some point it seems that Trolls had inhabited the region (indeed, Tolkien translated the Sindarin name Rhudaur as rhû “evil” + taur “wood” to give the same sense as Trollshaw, “shaw” being an archaic English word for a wood, forest; though in another place he translated it rhu- “eastern” + taur “wood”) but most of them must have been driven north into the Ettenmoors. Nevertheless, some trolls did occasionally come down into the Trollshaws; it was here of course that Bilbo, Thorin and company encountered three hungry trolls on a dark, rainy night.
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The Starry Mantle posted this on February 27th, 2013.
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The Fellowship of the Ring was the company chosen by Elrond Halfelven to protect and guide the Ring-bearer on his quest to destroy the One Ring in the fire of Mount Doom. The company was composed of nine, and all of the Free Peoples were represented: Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin for the Hobbits; Legolas for the Elves; Gimli for the Dwarves; Aragorn and Boromir for Men; and Gandalf.
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