Setting
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The setting of the MUD all depends on which side of the War one is on - which in turn depends on your race.
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[edit] Free Race Setting
(from "help setting":)
The Date is March 15, 3019, Third Age.
Frodo and Sam are presumed dead. Gollum is believed to be the culprit, but no one can find him.
Minas Tirith is besieged. Faramir was wounded in battle, and his father Denethor sits depressed in his tower.
The Rohirrim have joined the Battle of the Pelennor. Aragorn is said to be on his way.
Under the trees in Mirkwood, dark forces are assailing the kingdom of Thranduil the Wood-elf King.
Isengard has been destroyed by the Ents from Fangorn. Saruman and Grima Wormtongue are locked in the tower.
Lorien is being assaulted for the second time.
Allies of Sauron from the east of the Iron Hills have laid siege to Erebor (known previously as the Lonely Mountain). Dale has also been besieged, Brand and Dain Ironfoot have allied and have withstood the assaults from within Erebor.
The situation is bleak throughout the land....
[edit] Evil Race Setting
The Date is March 15, 3019, Third Age.
Things are going superbly. Lord Sauron's armies are on the brink of victory throughout the lands.
Minas Tirith is besieged. Our main force is preparing to enter and lay waste to the city this very day.
The puny Rohirrim have joined the Battle of the Pelennor. All the more for us to slaughter.
Under the trees in Mirkwood, our dark forces are assailing the weak kingdom of Thranduil.
Isengard has been destroyed by the Ents from Fangorn, and the traitorous Saruman is held in the tower there. Let him rot.
Lorien is being assaulted for the second time. This time, we will over- come the foul elves.
Our Easterling forces from east of the Iron Hills have laid siege to the mountain called Erebor. A nearby city called Dale has also been besieged, Brand and Dain Ironfoot have allied and have withstood the assaults from within Erebor, but time and strength are on our side.
The situation is excellent throughout the land...though Lord Sauron seems very concerned about a halfling (called a "hobbit") and some special item he may be carrying. Be on the lookout for these little people....
[edit] Theme
(from "help theme":)
Welcome to Arda!
Long ago, in the early years of the Second Age, the great Elven smiths forged Rings of Power. Nine for mortal Man, seven for the Dwarf lords, three for the tall Elf kings. But then the Dark Lord learned the craft of ring-making, and made the master ring, the One Ring, to rule them all. With the One Ring, Middle-Earth was his, and he could not be overcome. As the Last Alliance of Men and Elves fell beneath his power, he did not notice the heroic shadow who slipped in....
It was prince Isildur, from the mighty kings across the sea, who took the Ring from the Dark Lord. But because Isildur did not destroy it, the spirit of the Dark Lord lived on, and began to take shape again.
But the Ring had a will of its own, and a way of slipping from one hand to be found by another, so that it might at last get back to its master.
The Ring was lost in a great river, where it waited...and there the Ring lay, at the bottom of the River Anduin, for thousands of years.
During those years, the Dark Lord captured the nine rings that were made for Men, and turned their owners into Ringwraiths, terrible shadows under his control, who roamed the world searching for the One Ring. In time, the Ring was found. Two friends were fishing in the great river one day....
One of them was named Smeagol, and he envied his friend who found the Ring. It was that very envy that drove him to attack his friend, and murder him in cold blood. Smeagol was already falling under the control of the One Ring.
Smeagol used the Ring for thieving, and to find out secrets. His own people began to despise the wretched creature, and to call him Gollum. Tortured and driven by the Ring, he hid in dark caves deep in the mountains.
But the Ring slipped off Gollum's finger too. So it was that Bilbo Baggins found it, during his travels with Dwarves. Bilbo, a hobbit, took the Ring back to the Shire, his home.
There the Ring was passed on to young Frodo Baggins, who went on a great quest to destroy the Ring and rid Arda of the Enemy...but no one has heard from Frodo or Sam, his faithful companion, and there are rumours of a great army of evil marching out from the depths of Mordor toward Gondor....
As you glance to the southeast you glimpse something that, for a brief second, looks almost like a blood red eye turning its gaze toward...you?
