The Lay of Rust and Rime (Lore)
Lore
- The 'Lay of Rust and Rime is a series of episodic content taking place soon after the storyline of Eryn Lasgalen and the Dale-lands.
- The first episode was released on March 14, 2018. The second half began on June 6, 2018.
It began with Upate 22: Strongholds of the North
- Category:The Lay of Rust and Rime Quests
- The Lay of Rust and Rime - deed - Class/Race/Epic in Deed Log
- The Lay of Rust and Rime: The First Verse - Original deed (Update 22)
Dramatis Personae
- Karazgar - The Weeping Warrior
- Tárasánë - The Green Lady - a servant of the Uttermost West
- Vethúg Wintermind - the cold-drake of the Ered Mithrin
- Hrímil Frost-heart - Herald of Winter - in the Elder Days, she served Morgoth freely
- the will of Sauron could not compel her, and he bade Karazgar imprison her.
- o her frozen hordes, Hrímil is the last remnant of the Great Enemy.
- Mordath - The Mordath (Sindarin for Black-abyss/hole/pit) is a landmark within Dor Amarth on the Plateau of Gorgoroth.
Aman, also called the Undying Lands, the Blessed Realm, and the Uttermost West, lay beyond the Great Sea at the far western edge of the World. This land was the home of the Valar and the destination of the Elves when they departed Middle-earth.[1]
Aman encompassed Valinor, the Enchanted Isles, and the havens and cities of Eldamar.[2]
The name "Undying" referred to the immortals who dwelt there, not to any gift of immortality granted to mortals who entered it.[3]
The term "Uttermost West" described the location of Aman as a continent, lying west across the ocean from Middle-earth. Though once part of Arda, it was difficult to reach even in the First Age, for the Valar filled the seas east of their realm with enchantments and shadows.
In the Second Age, the Valar forbade the Men of Númenor from sailing into the Uttermost West. When Ar-Pharazôn broke this ban and led his fleet to Aman, Ilúvatar removed it from the circles of the world, bringing about the Downfall of Númenor.
Thereafter Aman existed outside Arda, reachable only by Elves on the "Straight Road". Many departed Middle-earth for the Undying Lands during the Third Age, especially after the War of the Ring.[4]
References
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Oromë
- Oromë was the Great Huntsman and Horseman of the Valar. In ancient days, he was the Vala who came most often to Middle-earth to hunt the monsters of Melkor.
- He fought against Morgoth (Melkor) in the First Age. His vassal, the Huntsman, can be encountered in a secret glade in Dunland.
- Béma was the name used by the Northmen for Oromë.
- The Sindar in Middle-earth had never crossed the Sea to Valinor, and so had names for only a few of the Valar.
- One was very familiar to them, however: the Huntsman of the Valar who had found them, newly awakened, by the shores of Cuiviénen.
- In those ancient days the Eldar gave him a name that was intended to mirror the sound of his great hunting horn, the Valaróma.
- As the languages of the Elves diverged, this name became Oromë in Quenya, but to the Sindar in Middle-earth this Vala was known as Araw. To the Kintai, who never began the Great Journey with their kin, he is Taknûn the Hunter.
- Legend said that Araw had brought extraordinary beasts to Middle-earth in ancient times, including the ancestors of the mearas of Rohan.
- To the east in Rhûn a kind of giant oxen could be found that were also said to have originated with the Huntsman, and so they were known as the Kine of Araw.
- For more information see:
- Northmen (Tolkien Gateway)
- Horn of Boromir (Encyclopedia of Arda)