Coffee!

[Marileangorifurnimaluim]

Sharkey, old man! Too rarely do you grace us with your presence. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

M-o-t-Wold, ah, but if there were no currency, then how do we explain Frodo's purse in Bree and his concerns that he didn't have enough to coin to pay such a rogue as Aragorn? Hm? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Or is that something only the Shire has?
(like umbrellas.)
Agreed however, that in the barbarian Far East we would need to barter. What do you think the West has that the East needs, Man of the World, er, Wold?

To tell you the truth, RPG-wise I find anything set after the War of the Ring distressing, all the elves leaving... But there was quite a boom-time in Dale and the Lonely Mountain after the death of Smaug, n'est pas? All sorts of abandoned trade routes opening up. And the Necromancer of Dol Guldur gone (or so it seems). We would have to find sponsorship of course, such ventures are expensive, do 'market research' (ask up and down our trade routes a year beforehand). Dwarves typically apprentice to a family member for at least a year or two. There is the traditional reading of omens - dwarves are as superstitious as baseball players and gamblers.

Shall we start with the scrying?

-Maril

[ September 15, 2002: Message edited by: Marileangorifurnimaluim ]