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on: February 16, 2015 11:06
I hope my post makes sense with everyone else's. It's hard to tie everything up when you're a bit behind!

Sorry if it seems rushed, but I didn't want to be behind for too long!
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on: February 16, 2015 03:09
Sir Arveleg, thank you so much for the kind words. They are much appreciated.

Cenor, I know how you feel. I think at least one of my characters is doomed to die, but the thought of that is very saddening. I get too attached to my characters.

Itarildë, your post was great! I have a hard time keeping caught up with everyone else too, so don't feel bad! So much can happen within the space of a few posts.

Keep up the great work everyone!
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on: February 16, 2015 05:30
ItarildeSirfalas said:I hope my post makes sense with everyone else's.

I think it fits very well Ilde!

ItarildeSirfalas said:It's hard to tie everything up when you're a bit behind!

Sorry if it seems rushed, but I didn't want to be behind for too long!


Indeed it is. But I think you summarised things very well, which is what one has to do when they get behind the arc.

If that is the quality of your "rushed" posts, You are indeed a good writer. Don't sell yourself short!

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I've been looking about on the inter-webz for 'Fornost' and lots of interesting interpretations came up. Most seem to be based on the LOTRO game, but some unique artwork came up as well. I thought the art and write-up by Battle of Fornost by Tulikoura on Deviantart was pretty good! It has more to do with the battles of the year TA 1975 and the re-taking of Fornost by the Army of Gondor with the remnents of the Northern Dunedain and the elves of Lindon aand Rivendell (which happens a year later than the initial fall of Fornost of our period in the RP right now), and is a good read...

"During the Angmar War, what was left of the ancient realm of Arnor was under attack. While not ignoring the North-Kingdom, King Eärnil II (of Gondor) had trouble of his own, and could not spare any of his troops to send North. It took long until King felt his South-Kingdom was secured, and he could fulfill his promise to aid the northern part. In Autumn 1973 messages arrived to Gondor, and King learnt that the Witch-king was preparing for the final blow against Arthedain. King sent his son Eärnur north. Though his fleet sailed rapidly, he was not in time to save Arthedain or Arvedui, its last king. But his massive fleet - it filled Mithlond, Harlond and Forlond - was hailed by the Men that had survived the last defeat, and the Elves also. To Gondor's standards, the expeditionary force was mediocre in size. It did, however, include cavalry from Rhovanion, which would prove useful on the wide lands of the North.

The Elves of Lindon and the remnant of the northern Dúnedain joined Eärnur's army and the combined forces marched against the Witch-king. He now lived in Fornost, so was told, where he gathered troops from the region. The Witch-king had grown overconfident, and instead of staying behind his fortifications he initiated the attack, and led his army to the plains. The Battle of Fornost was fought on the plain between the Lake Nenuial and the North Downs, where the army of Witch-king was defeated by the army of West. His army began to fall back toward Fornost, but Eärnur’s main force flanked them and struck from the north, routing the majority of the army.

The Witch-king regrouped the remnants of his army, and fled to Angmar and the safety of Carn Dûm. The cavalry, led by Eärnur himself, overtook him before he reached the mountains. Moreover, the ranks of the allies swelled, as an army of elves from Rivendell came led by the mighty hero of old, Glorfindel. Angmar was purged complitely of men and orcs, and all seemed lost for the Witch-king in the face of such numbers.

The Witch-king himself came at the last, robed and masked in black and riding a black horse; in his anger he was terrible to behold. Amongst cavalrymen he saw the Captain of Gondor, and rode toward him shrieking like a beast. Eärnur would have met the assault, but his horse shied away and fled, and it took some time before Eärnur could regain control. The Witch-king laughed, and everyone who heard it never forgot how terrible his voice was. But Glorfindel came on his white horse, and faced with such power the Witch-king fled. He vanished into the shadows, and no-one marked where he had gone."

[Edited on 02/17/2015 by Arveleg]
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on: February 17, 2015 10:15
Thank you for sharing Arveleg!

If anyone needs to JP with character deaths I'm open...I may need to JP with someone for some of my character deaths.
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on: February 18, 2015 10:27
I would very much be interested in seeing characters from this RP, and maybe some new ones in a sequel RP that takes place in TA 1975 with the retaking of Fornost and defeat of Angmar. Bregolman's father is still imprisoned in Carn Dum for all he knows. After Angmar is defeated he might want to go free the prisoners of Angmar and see if his father is among them.

As far as Characters dying I expect at least one of the characters I've brought in will not make it. Possibly more. We'll see!

As far as King Arvedui's plan, will we need to divide our characters up between the different escaping groups?
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on: February 18, 2015 11:00
Sir Arveleg, thank you for sharing that bit with us!

Cenor, you know I am always up for joint posting. Let me know if you want to do that.

Naurmaethor, I agree about a sequel! I would be very interested in doing that.

I feel at least one of my characters should perish, but I can't stand the thought. The characters that were at first intended to be minor have developed their own special place with me. Time will tell what will actually end up happening with that.

I can't find any way around dividing up my characters. I have around 5-6, so they may be split evenly.
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on: February 19, 2015 03:56
The idea of a sequel RP thread is a good idea from the arrival of the Gondorian fleet in the Grey Havens, and the counter-attack east to re-take Fornost. That should be fun!

Being that it's morning after the 1st attack on Fornost, I think we still have much RP to do here. The trouble with plans in wartime is something usually goes awry before or during its implementation. I was thinking that maybe the Witch King moves early, like about midday, and the plans are only partially started before the enemy break in? If we follow a semi-canon timeline here, there will be three possible outcomes for our characters. They are either slain in Fornost, in battle or in the sacking; they are killed trying to get away as they flee west with the sons of Arvedui; they find a horse and ride with the King into battle where they withdraw to the North Downs. I have three characters in play right now, and I've written out about three timelines for my couple Marcadil and Dauwna. I have been writing a post for Dukhalas and would have had it posted had a power outage not disrupted my progress. I hope to get that up as soon as I can.

We do have a category 5 cyclone bearing down on us here. We aren't where it will make landfall, but it will track over us as a category 1 or a tropical low eventually. Needless to say, power and internet access may be spotty for me for a couple days.
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on: February 19, 2015 11:46
Arveleg said:
If we follow a semi-canon timeline here, there will be three possible outcomes for our characters. They are either slain in Fornost, in battle or in the sacking; they are killed trying to get away as they flee west with the sons of Arvedui; they find a horse and ride with the King into battle where they withdraw to the North Downs.


The characters that flee west with the sons of Arvedui wouldn't all die necessarily would they? I imagine they would be pursued and some would lose their lives but a contingent would survive to form what becomes the wandering tribe of Dunedain in the North.
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on: February 19, 2015 04:15
Naurmaethor said:The characters that flee west with the sons of Arvedui wouldn't all die necessarily would they? I imagine they would be pursued and some would lose their lives but a contingent would survive to form what becomes the wandering tribe of Dunedain in the North.


No. I think they could die, or not, if one so chooses. There has to be a remnant to carry on the Northern Dunedain that carried on the line to King Elessar. I didn't finish that sentence in last night's post.

[Edited on 02/19/2015 by Arveleg]
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on: February 20, 2015 09:06
GREAT posts Arveleg! I was literally on the edge of my seat with the post involving Dukhalas and Malassuil. Really nice twist! My plan for my characters is to have Camedhil ride with the King. Though he is a blacksmith by trade he is an older warrior who has been trained on horseback and will be useful to them. As for my other three characters Bregolman, Beleg, and Belorn I'm certain that at least one should stay in the city and one should be a part of the group escorting those evacuating. Arveleg, if I needed to use one or two of Dukhalas's infiltrators would that be alright?
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on: February 20, 2015 10:23
Arveleg, I second Naurmaethor! When I got to the part with Malassuil I thought, "Wow, that was brilliant!" Absolutely wonderful job!

I believe Nestedir will ride out with the King as well. Freeda, her brother and their mother will be with the group evacuating the city. That leaves Richard and Ithilwen. I'm not sure where they will be yet.
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Naurmaethor said:Arveleg, if I needed to use one or two of Dukhalas's infiltrators would that be alright?

Naurmaethor, yeah, sounds good. I sent you a PM with some vague guidelines on them to confuse you

Thanks by the way. It was a hard write and I as a writer felt it to be clunky, cumbersome, and and maybe confusing. But then, it was written over a few days in a few different places, and stitched together. The last part was more stitching. I didn't want to rush pastthe battles and such too fast as I get the feeling some of us aren't quite done with this phase? I added an early attack by the reinforced enemy hordes to make the plans a bit more hurried. This next attack I plan on having Gukkhus's mercenary hillmen attack the weaker defended, rugged north side of Fornost. I did add a bit of winter morning to the setting as it would be late autumn-early winter, and Fornost is a ways north.

Hope it all isn't too confusing! Look forward to all your upcoming posts!

EDIT 23/2/2015:
I interrupt this broadcast to bring you some trivial asides to this Rp story.... In re-reading the part of Arvedui in Return of the King's Appendix A, one of the things I think we should remember is the King and his men that held off thw wirtch King for a few weeks in the North Downs also had with them two of the Palantiri... the Stone of Annuminas, and the larger Stone of Amon Sul. I'm thinking that to move such items in stealth would be a feat for horsemen. The Annuminas Stone would likely be similar to how they were portrayed in the PJ fan-fics, but the Amon Sul Stone (as was the Osgiliath Stone) were somewhat larger (Source: Unfinished Tales chapter The Palantiri). Anyway, something to give thought to when we write the escape from Fornost. I now return you to your regularly scheduled RP...


[Edited on 02/23/2015 by Arveleg]
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on: February 23, 2015 05:07
I hope you all don't mind if I bring in Itarildë's father to Fornost! I thought the Men needed a boost, and seeing as Elrohir is a well-known "survivor", he'll be able to give more aid and advice? Not only that, but Itarildë is going to be down and out for a while due to her poisoning, so I needed another set of characters to write for! I'm optimistic that Itarildë will live though

Let me know what you think.

Also, loving the RP writing at the moment everyone

[Edited on 02/23/2015 by ItarildeSirfalas]
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Goodness, what a lot of posts in one day! I was working on a post and had to keep changing it as more people posted. So many good posts...loving this! If mine is half as good as everyone else's I think I will be satisfied.
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ItarildeSirfalas said:I hope you all don't mind if I bring in Itarildë's father to Fornost! I thought the Men needed a boost, and seeing as Elrohir is a well-known "survivor", he'll be able to give more aid and advice? Not only that, but Itarildë is going to be down and out for a while due to her poisoning, so I needed another set of characters to write for! I'm optimistic that Itarildë will live though

Let me know what you think.

Also, loving the RP writing at the moment everyone


Great post Itarildë! And it’s good to have Elrohir in the RP. Bringing in canonical characters sort of makes things interesting. I did write in King Arvedui and Queen Firiel in a background role, as they would have to be a part of the Fornost story, as would be his son Aranarth (and as such, are considered to be NCEs - Non-Controlled Entities – anyone can write parts in for them as long as it’s consistent with what is known of them). I added a name to a younger son, since in appendix A it does say "sons of Arvedui". This means there were at least two, possibly more. Since little is written of the feats of King Arvedui, Queen Firiel, and the sons of Elrond, there is “room to move” with them. My only suggestion would be that named canonical characters be more a writer’s background character rather than their main character. I would be curious what others think of this. I was going to ask this before writing the bits with King Arvedui & Queen Firiel.


Eruwestiel_Evensong said:Goodness, what a lot of posts in one day! I was working on a post and had to keep changing it as more people posted. So many good posts...loving this! If mine is half as good as everyone else's I think I will be satisfied.


A flurry of posts for sure! I think you did a great job of mending your post in! I myself had to do that as well. I had a night of insomnia so I got up and pounded out my recent post. Of course, by the time posted, Naurmaethor had posted his excellent post, so I had to edit in some stitching. Hopefully my post isn’t too awkward.
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on: February 24, 2015 11:40
Things are about to go real bad real fast it looks like for the defenders of Fornost! Bregolman is going to be busy at the moment with some of the infiltrators heading for the Royal Guard of the king. Arveleg, could I use Malassuil for one more post and then where I leave him you can pick him back up? I just plan on having a few of the Royal Guard taken out, Malassuil and Bregolman are not far behind and will take out the infiltrators you lent to me.

As far as what you were saying Arveleg about canonical characters I tend to agree. I think we are all here because we love Tolkien's world and desire an authentic Tolkien RP experience without the strictness of the Totally Tolkien rules. Using authentic Tolkien characters for background purposes is fun but I prefer to not use one as a main character simply because I know I could never do a canonical character justice for long. But, I don't have any issue with canonical characters serving as background or making an appearence such as Elrohir has in our RP.

As far as our thread is currently going, I'm really curious to see how our characters are going to handle trying to execute this plan while the enemy forces seem to be breaking into the city. Almost seems like they are going to need to set the plan into motion immediately in order to have any hope of getting the caravan away.
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Naurmaethor said: Things are about to go real bad real fast it looks like for the defenders of Fornost! Bregolman is going to be busy at the moment with some of the infiltrators heading for the Royal Guard of the king. Arveleg, could I use Malassuil for one more post and then where I leave him you can pick him back up? I just plan on having a few of the Royal Guard taken out, Malassuil and Bregolman are not far behind and will take out the infiltrators you lent to me.


Yes, go for it! I'm currently working on the storyline for Dukhalas and his couple guys, and for Dauwna and the hasty evacuation/escape of some of the wounded/sick in the old healing house. it was going to be threatened by the Hillmen mercenaries, etc.

Naurmaethor said: As far as what you were saying Arveleg about canonical characters I tend to agree. I think we are all here because we love Tolkien's world and desire an authentic Tolkien RP experience without the strictness of the Totally Tolkien rules. Using authentic Tolkien characters for background purposes is fun but I prefer to not use one as a main character simply because I know I could never do a canonical character justice for long. But, I don't have any issue with canonical characters serving as background or making an appearence such as Elrohir has in our RP..


That's pretty much my thoughts on this too. The only canon character I think will have a fair part of this, and the sequel RP we plan, is King Arvedui's eldest son Aranarth. He goes on to become the 1st Chieftain of the Dunedain in the end.

Naurmaethor said: As far as our thread is currently going, I'm really curious to see how our characters are going to handle trying to execute this plan while the enemy forces seem to be breaking into the city. Almost seems like they are going to need to set the plan into motion immediately in order to have any hope of getting the caravan away.


I think it will be rather somewhat chaotic, but held together by the King's horsemen attack causing confusion and panic amongst the enemy during his charge out of the city. They of course will end up battling for I believe 3 weeks in the North Downs before fleeing north to Forochel. I think it's time to read once again that page in Appendix A again....

[Edited on 02/24/2015 by Arveleg]
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Does the Witch King actually enter Fornost during this phase of the battle? Or is it only after the city is taken?
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I think the Witch King would do battle with, and pursue King Arvedui when he rides out, and comes into Fornost after he drives King Arvedui out of the North Downs. But this is open to interpretation.
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I think Song and I are going to Joint Post!

I was thinking Witchy can come in (impatient with his orc commanders) wreak a little havoc and then see King Arvedui and swoop down to meet them.
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on: February 25, 2015 09:57
I want to let you all know Elrohir is only going to be around as a 'main' character (I use this term loosely), until Itarildë awakens. So he'll 'fade' into a background character pretty soon.

I'm hoping she becomes a bit more useful soon
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I got another post coming up tomorrow morning.(Eastern Standard Time) I just finished a lengthy bit with Beleg and Belorn and need to call it a night before I write the next bit for Bregolman, Malassuil, and the infiltrators. Wish I could crank them out quicker but I am just not really quick when it comes to writing my posts.
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Naurmaethor, that is no problem at all. It takes me quite awhile to write and edit my posts as well.

Things are looking bad for the people of Fornost...
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Yeah, sometimes I can pound one out quickly if the muse is flowing with the tale, but other times it come's painfully slow and in blocks. I then have to edit/stitch it all together to make sense.

ItarildeSirfalas said: I want to let you all know Elrohir is only going to be around as a 'main' character (I use this term loosely), until Itarildë awakens. So he'll 'fade' into a background character pretty soon.

That is pretty much how I interpreted it. You're doing a good job writing Elrohir.

ItarildeSirfalas said: I'm hoping she becomes a bit more useful soon

Hopefully Ilde will be able to become conscience again soon. otherwise we'll be moving her out when the exodus starts.
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RIP Leonard Nimoy

Sorry I haven't been around much everyone! I'm currently setting up a research proposal for my third year university project/dissertation, so I've been a bit cooped up and preoccupied with that! I will post something soon. I will have a good bit of catching up to do though, I see!

My apologies all! Hope you're all well
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Forgot to mention that Song and I are joint posting. The post will include the discovery of the poisoned well.

Hopefully it will be up soon!
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ItarildeSirfalas said:RIP Leonard Nimoy

Sorry I haven't been around much everyone! I'm currently setting up a research proposal for my third year university project/dissertation, so I've been a bit cooped up and preoccupied with that! I will post something soon. I will have a good bit of catching up to do though, I see!

My apologies all! Hope you're all well

No worries Itarilde. This will be here when you are ready and able to write. Look forward to it when you do!

I've been somewhat busy this week myself as my wife had to have some major surgery Monday. Had to get things cleaned and ready around the house, and she came home Thursday afternoon. All is going well

Cenor said:Forgot to mention that Song and I are joint posting. The post will include the discovery of the poisoned well.

Hopefully it will be up soon!

I look forward to this collab. post! I've been writing up bits and bobs that I may use in some of my future posts, so no hurry s here.

May your real lives (of which, writing would be a chosen part of tat I suppose) be blessed, and Happy writing everyone!
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on: March 11, 2015 08:44
A quick post here in hopes nobody had posted to the RP since Naurmaethor on 9 March. Apparently there was some server/board/work being done which erased posts made on the 10th. I am archiving the story thread just in case something happens and the story is lost. Not saying that will happen, but I have been a part of RPs in the past where server malfunction/hacks/ board software updates, etc. has caused the loss of posts, threads, and in the case of the great EZBoard hack & crash of May 2005, complete forums.

I'm holding off a bit in adding to the tale as I Look forward to everyone's posts!

I did ask this in a couple other threads but should ask it here since this would directly affect my co-writers of this tale...

'm bringing this back up as I have been toying with the idea of adding some 1st person narrative to one of my characters in the Darkest of Days RP. It would 'phase' in after the character is mentioned in 3rd person narrative, and would 'phase' out back to 3rd person narrative before it was done. I think it may be a good way to express the thoughts and feelings of the character.

I would be interested in hearing opinions from my co-writers on this. I ask because I have been archiving some of my past RPs and found a couple that had partial 1st person writing in it.

[Edited on 03/12/2015 by Arveleg]
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on: March 13, 2015 03:52
Thanks for backing up the posts Arveleg, I didn't realize CoE lost any posts. Glad I didn't wait to post what I posted.

As far as 1st person writing, with my Tolkien RPing I've always preferred to write in 3rd person. But, you writing in 1st person some wouldn't bother me.
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on: March 13, 2015 05:50
I apologize for the great delay in my posts. I have worked a little on a new post but I need to write quite a bit more still. Someone please give me a kick if I don't hurry up with it.

Arveleg, you know my thoughts on this matter already, but I'll restate a little for the others.
I feel that 1st person could add an interesting element to the story as long as it written in a non-confusing way. The fading in and out from 3rd person should help to avoid that issue. I say try it out and see how it goes.
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on: March 13, 2015 06:14
First person sounds very interesting Arveleg!

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on: March 13, 2015 12:10
I know what you mean Naurmaethor. If I do it, there would be a very limited 1st person component used. The more I read through the past RPs where 1st person was done, the less I want to use it, but I think it has a place in the "thought bubble" aspect of letting readers get a glimpse of the character, and character development while not havi g to try and do that in 3rd person. That said, I don't want to make overly long posts with too much introspective. I'll try and keep it reigned in
I'll trial a post for Marcadil and Dauwna to see how it goes. If I don't like the draft, I'll edit it to 3rd person.

No worries Lady Song! I've been a bit pre-occupied writing in my collab project Legacy of Cardolan. Are you referring to your and Lady Cenor's collaborative post?
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on: March 13, 2015 12:53
Arveleg, that I am! The Lady Cenor has been quite busy with other writing this month. I may be able to scrape a quick post together before we post the collaborative one. We'll see.
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on: March 14, 2015 10:40
Hello, all!

I have been reading the last few posts in the RP thread, and I was wondering if I may join? Or would it be too disruptive for you all at this point?
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