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The Last Words of his Last Friend Orodreth the King rode at the forefront of the van, and wherever his banner billowed beneath it rose the golden grimace of the Dragon-Helm of Túrin son of Húrin, and in their train came all the lords of the House of Finrod the Cave-Hewer, of fair faces and...

The Friend of Wanderers: Reborn into Middle Earth _______________________________________________________________________________ I really wanted to die. You see, when I was 5, I developed motor neuron disease. A disease that is usually only contracted by people in their 50s, but what can I...

Claire fell. Jim had grabbed her hand as Morganna had pulled her back into the void, and Toby had shattered the staff. But Morganna was holding on, pulling both her and Jim into the void. Light. Dark. Then Morganna and Jim were both whirled away from her, and Claire opened her mouth to...

Shortly after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, new countries come from Middle-Earth. Rohan replaces Poland. Harad replaces the Maghreb region. Gondor replaces Pakistan. The time period for the LOTR kingdoms is the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring. Will the foreign transplants carve huge...

Gondor, the greatest of the kingdoms of men since fallen Numenor. Gondor, full of cities of splendor. Gondor, sister to lost Eariador. Gondor, decaying. Gondor, falling day by day. It is TA 2984, Denathor II has taken up the mantle of Steward and has begun staffing his advisors. You are one such...

In your opinion, which Age of Middle-Earth would you prefer to live in and why? The Fourth Age is excluded, given how little we know about it.

The End of the Third Age I remember the day Barad Dur fell. For most of the people of Middle Earth, that was a cause for celebration. Why wouldn’t they be happy? The downfall of the Dark Lord Sauron meant that the free people of the West no longer needed to fear invasion from the evil...

"The hobbits did not understand his words, but as he spoke they had a vision as it were of a great expanse of years behind them, like a vast shadowy plain over which there strode shapes of Men, tall and grim with bright swords […]" T.A 1298 It is the Third Age of Middle-Earth, and it is the...

A low-ranking orc overseer in Mordor attempts to rise through the ranks and deal with outer as well as inner enemies. Based on a Mordor campaign I played in the Third Age modification for Medieval II Total War. Violence, betrayal and most kinds of bad manners abound. The orcs are a brutal lot...

This is a crossover between Game of Thrones and a Lord of the Rings fanfiction, specifically Surgicalsteel's House of Healing stories. I am borrowing one of the SurgicalSteel characters, but have not been able to contact the author for permission after trying for several months. These may...

"In that time the fleets of the Númenóreans darkened the sea upon the west of the land, and they were like an archipelago of a thousand isles; their masts were as a forest upon the mountains, and their sails like a brooding cloud; and their banners were golden and black. And all things waited...

The Dragon is Withered Five years as passed since the death of the Greatest of Calamities; and now the free people of Middle-earth can finally live without fear, for with the end of his reign a veil of fear as been lifted. The dwarves are returning to the Lonely Mountain and King Brand...

Death has come to the Undying Lands. Finwë, your king, has been slain by the cruel hand of the dark Vala Melkor as he stood defending the gates of the fortress of his eldest son, and your new lord, Fëanor. Melkor, or has Fëanor has now named him, Morgoth, the Black Foe, stole much from the...

The multiverse is vast and infinite, containing both wonders and horrors beyond comprehension. Every moment, dimensions are created and destroyed; a whirling chaotic infinity. But what happens to the inhabitants of those destroyed worlds? Well, they end up here, in Outland. Outland is one of...

You stare into the palantir, watching the armies of Sauron amassing and drilling within Mordor. Few were the armies of the Free Peoples in this age who could fight such a force, and this was but the least of Sauron's legions. The elves were leaving this world, the kingdom of Arnor was gone and...

A new soul comes to Arda, living as they would. Yet this soul will play an important part in the history of the world and the foiling of the Dark Lord's plans. First, however, we must decide their substance. What is your name? []Write-in What race are you? []Hobbit []Dwarf []Man []Elf...

You surveyed the field across from you and the opponents on it, to think that just a day ago you were merely Daeron Snow, the bastard son of Cregan starks sister and Daemon Targaryen, now you are a lord of your own and have a house of your own, now your Daeron _______ and have a house of your...

A Fellowship of 10 Chapter I – A Knife in the Dark Part 1 29 September 1418 (Shire Reckoning) 3018 Third Age Bree, Breeland As Sam, Frodo, Merry, Pippin and Strider left the Prancing Pony a young Bree hobbit came up to them. "I would like to come with you, Mr Underhill," she said. "I am sorry...

It is the year 2901 of the Third Age. These are the lands of the Kingdom of Gondor, ruled by Túrin II, Steward of the Realm until the true King returns. Long has Gondor stood against the dangers of the east and all that is evil, no matter if it was Man or Orcs that threatened Middle-Earth. But...

Morlindalë : The Song of Darkness (Tolkien Quest) In the beginning was Eru, the One, the Elves call Iliuvatar the Father of all. And they gathered around them the Aïnur born of their thought. And this was in the Timeless Halls where form was not and the Aïnur whirled around the throne of Eru in...

During the year 1206, the western region of Middle Earth arrives in the Asian region of future Russia. This is Middle Earth during the beginning of The Hobbit. The climate of the Middle Earth nations are maintained. Magic still works but only the inhabitants and items in the transported regions...

Of Winding Ways and Cunning Devices Born to the last gasps of a dying age, born as the gifts of Westernese faded even as its might and glory grew to darken the very skies, yours would not be the journey of Elendil and his sons and your ship shall not be one of the Nine to reach the shores of...

The Lord of the Rings Online - subtitled ‘Shadows of Angmar’ back when it first came out - is a venerable MMORPG. That is to say, it's very old, as it was first released way back in 2007… Unlike a lot of games from that era, it's also still active and receiving updates and expansions to this...

Chapter 1: Prelude Third Age 1944 A creaking sound disturbed the silence, as a flaming torch revealed a guardsman entering the dungeon cell. The occupant appeared asleep, his worn head bowed, resting on a long graying beard. His wrists were shackled. The shackles were long, however, as they...

Colors, many of heroism, yield envy and fear. Time passes over passing time. Fear and envy yield, Hero of Many Colors. As with Ring-Maker, I've decided I want to have a chunky introduction post. But I haven't spent the time I need to figure out what I want in that post. I'm sure it'll fill up...