Middle Earth pbem From: "MALINDSELL" <MALINDSELL@classicfm.net> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000 MERP TIMELINE R.E. MALINDSELL@CLASSICFM.NET The current game is set in 2941 of the third age. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The following dates are to give you a general feel for the time period that As Winter Passes takes place in. Your character by no means has knowledge of all these events, they are provided only for player reference. I do encourge that you make references to the events, for they do have a slight bearing on the adventure at hand. MAJOR EVENTS OF THE THIRD AGE Disaster of the Gladden Fields. Isildur is slain and The One Ring is lost. 861 The spliting of Arnor into it's successor states - Cardolan, Arthedain and Rhudaur. 1050 Sauron sets up rulership in Dol Gulder. The south of Greenwood falls under the Shadow, becoming Mirkwood. 1100 Harfoot Hobbits enter Eriador, Fallohides and Stoors follow within the next fifty years. The Harfoots settle throughout En Eredoriath with the Fallohides to the north and the Stoors to the south. 1276 The realm of Angmar is founded. 1300 The Hobbits move westward, many settle in Bree. 1301-1350 Rhudaur gradually falls under the Shadow. Finally Dunnish Hillmen allied with the Witch-king seize control. 1352-1359 The first Northern War. Arthedain and Cardolan versus Rhudaur and Angmar. 1408 The beginning of the second Northern War. 1409 The beginning of the disintegration of the kingdom of Cardolan. Bree is razed to the ground by the armies of the Witch-king. The tower at Amon S�l (Weathertop) is razed. 1432 Civil War erupts and divides Gondor (the Kin-strife). 1601 Hobbits leave Bree migrate westward to settle in the then vacant Shire (Kd. "S�za"). Year One of the Shire Reckoning. 1630 The remaining Stoor Hobbits leave Rhudaur to join their brethren in the Shire. 1635 Beginning of the Great Plague that devastates much of Gondor and Eriador. 1636 Final fall of the kingdom of Cardolan. 1637 The end of the Great Plague. * 1640 * Setting for As Winter Passes 1700 The few remaing D�nedain of Cardolan abandon their homelands; equal numbers fo to Arthedain and Gondor. 1800 Increasingly severe winters force most of the remaining peasant population to begin a slow southern migration. 1975 The Battle of Fornost (the third Northern War), where the Witch-king is defeated, but too late to save the last remnants of Arnor. 1980 The Balrog comes forth from Moria. Many Elves flee Lorien. 2463 The White Council is formed and includes Saruman and Gandalf. 2511 Rohan is founded. 2941 Bilbo journey to Erebor. Smaug is slain by Bard, a descendant of Girion. The Battle of the Five Armies. Thorin II is slain. Orc numbers diminish in the north. Bilbo discovers The One Ring. 2951 Sauron, now in Mordor, makes himself known and declares his rapacious intentions. Dol Gulder is reoccupied by the Nazg�l, and the Dark lord begins rebuilding Barad-d�r. 3001 Bilbo takes up residence in Rivendell. 3004-3008 Gandalf visits Frodo in the Shire. 3018 The War of the Ring. 3019 Sauron is defeated. The One Ring is destroyed,a nd the others are either destroyed or rendered virtially powerless. 3021 The Passing of the Ring-bearers into the Undying lands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Up