Golden Perch Discussion Thread

[Mithalwen]

The date at the point posting stopped at the Inn was 2nd November 1356 shire reckoning so 2956 TA.

Rulers in the mortal realms are:

Shire - Fortinbras II is Took and Thain (cousin rather than direct ancestor of Pippin).

Gorbadoc "Broadbelt", great grandfather of Merry is Master of Buckland.

Dain is King under the Mountain

Bard is Lord of Dale (rebuilt).

Ecethelion II succeeded his father Turgon as Steward of Gondor 3 years ago

Thengel father of Theoden is the new King of Rohan,

Angelimir grandfather of Imrahil is Prince of Dol Amroth.


Denethor is a young man of 26. Finduilas his future wife is 6 and her brother Imrahil a year old baby. Theoden is a lad of 8. Aragorn is 25 and has been travelling in the wild for 5 years knowing his true identity and having met Arwen. This is the year he meets Gandalf. He has not yet been in the service of Thengel or Ecthelion.

It is 15 years since the Quest of Erebor and 7 since Gandalf and Balin paid their visit to Bilbo. Frodo and the younger hobbits have not yet been born. Gimli is 77.

The White Council met for the last time three years ago and Saruman has fortified Isengard. He has started to spy on Gandalf.

Sauron has returned to Mordor and is gathering strength. It is about 2 years since Mount Doom burst into flame again and Ithilien was abandoned,

[Mithalwen]

Inn context.

Not sure that any is needed beyond the Inn descriptions and list of staff posted at the begining of the thread save to note that it was the afternoon lull and that Iris (replacement cook) and Penny her young cousin had only started work at the inn that day. The cook's disappearance six months ago has for the time being been left as a bit of a mystery (I summarised the situation pre time slip here http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...&postcount=822) .

I don't think there is anything to stop you diving in or that you particularly need to know, there isn't a fight or a party.. So if Foley is agreable I suggest we can just carry on?

[Galadriel55]

We could carry on, or we could skip a few hours, or even a few days. I guess it depends on whether we want the same characters, more or less, or different ones. I'm ok with whatever decision is made.

[Folwren]

Yeah. Diving straight in is fine. It shouldn't mess anything up, as Mith says, and I am totally trusting her judgement. I will have time to actually look at some of this myself tomorrow, in about 12 hours. But by all means, don't hold back - come on in!

-- Folwren

[Mithalwen]

Eeek! The responsibility!! But seriously I can't see that a major time change is necessary though always an option. I would prefer that it was minimal since I would like to keep writing Elin but equally Galadriel, I don't see why you shouldn't change if you have had enough of Al.

[Snowdog]

Afternoon lull on 2 November SR-1356/TA 2956. Got it. Since it's an inn in Stock, East Farthing, someone arriving would be a common happening. I think I'll give it a go after I read through again and see if I can figure out who the proprietor and bar-staff is. I could assume they are NCEs but will give it another read-through.

[Mithalwen]

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...75&postcount=2

This gives you the links you need. However as I mentioned, they have been supplemented by Iris and Penny just today. Iris is cooking and Penny serving/ generally helping IIRC. However until we see who else comes back, the landlord Seredic Boffin played by Foley may be your best bet for interaction. Bit depends if your character is a regular or new in town of course...