Story timeline, list of contemporary rulers, notes and maps

Timeline: A listing of major events, as given by Tolkien, of relevance to our story.

Second Age:
c. 1600 Sauron makes the One Ring
c. 2251 The Nazgul appear
3319 The Fall of Numenor
3320 Elendil founds Arnor in the North, his sons found Gondor in the South.
3429-3441 Sauron attacks, the War of the Last Alliance and the Seige of Mordor.
3441 The Fall of Sauron, the deaths of Gil-galad and Elendil, High Kings of Elves and Men. End of the Second Age.

Third Age:
2 Disaster of the Gladden Fields – death of Isildur and his three elder sons.
861 Division of Arnor into; Arthedain, Cardolan, Rhudaur
c. 1000 The Istari – or Wizards – appear in Middle Earth
c. 1150 Ancestors of the Shire Hobbits cross the Misty Mountains west into Eriador.
c. 1300 Establishment of Angmar, north and east of ArnorÂ’s daughter kingdoms, by the Witch-King, Chief of the Nazgul. Some Hobbits move to Bree.
1347-1349 The time of our story! (not per JRRT, of course)
1349 King Argeleb I comes to the throne of Arthedain, The descendants of Isildur having died out in Cardolan and Rhudaur, he lays claim to all Arnor once more, but Rhudaur resists his claim.
1356 King Argeleb I slain in battle with Rhudaur & Angmar.
1409 Combined army from Angmar and Rhudaur attacks Arthedain and Cardolan. Amon Sul (Weathertop) is destroyed, and King Arveleg I slain. Last Prince of Cardolan slain. King Araphor holds out at Fornost, to where the Palantir of Amon Sul had been carried. Remnant of Dunedain in Rhudaur flee or are slain.
1601 Argeleb II makes land grant of The Shire to Hobbits.
1636 The Great Plague destroys the remaining Dunedain of Cardolan. Evil Spirits from Angmar and Rhudaur occupy the Barrow Downs.
1974 The Witch-King over-runs Fornost and the North Kingdom of Arnor/Arthedain comes to an end.
1975 King Arvedui of Arthedain drowns in the Ice Bay of Forochel, but the army of Angmar is crushed by joint forces from Gondor and Lindon.
2941-42 Bilbo’s adventure with the Dwarves – to Erebor, The Lonely Mountain – as recounted in “The Hobbit”.
3018-3019 The major events recounted in “The Lord of the Rings.”

List of contemporary rulers

Rhudaur:

King Tarnendur, born 1190; King of Rhudaur since 1323, dwelt in Gondor before he gained the Crown. Descendant of Isildur and Dauremir, 157 years old.
Inzilbeth, Tarnendur’s late first wife: (daughter of Serinde) from Umbar. She died in childbirth in 1256
Queen Eilinel, Tarnendur’s present wife (since 1324): a Dunedain Lady from Rhudaur. 66 years old

Tarnendur’s children:
Gimilbeth (daughter of Inzilbeth) born 1240 in Gondor. 107 years old.
Daurendil, King’s Heir (son of Eilinel) born 1327 in Cameth Brin. 20 years old
Amantir (son of Eilinel) born 1330 in Cameth Brin. 17 years old
Tarniel (daughter of Eilinel) born 1333 in Cameth Brin. 14 years old

Arthedain:
King Malvegil of Arthedain at Fornost (b. 1144), 203 years old
Celebrindol, his son and Heir (b. 1226) who later became King Argeleb I, 121 years old
Beleg, son of Celebrindol (b. 1309) who later became King Arveleg I, 38 years old

Angmar:
The Witch-King, Lord of the Nazgul, about 3000 years old at this time

Gondor:
Minalcar (b. 1126), regent 1240-1304, crowned as Romendacil II in 1304, he is the one who built the pillars of the Argonath.
Valacar son of Minalcar (b.1194), married to a Rhovanion princess, Vidumavi.
Eldacar son of Valacar (at first called Vinitharya), b. 1255

The list is based on LOTR Appendix A and on HOME 12. The characters in Rhudaur are original.

Maps and Notes

The map of the four Kingdoms in the North: Arthedain, Cardolan, Rhudaur and Angmar

While writing the story we used some excellent MERP-ICE maps, the links to them will be posted in the corresponding chapters and also here.

Here is the map of Northwestern Rhudaur

We have also made some original plans of places and buildings.

Map of Cameth Brin and Tanoth Brin

Plan of the Cameth Brin Palace
Ground floor

First floor

Second floor

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