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Kings of Rhudaur
Aldarion 861 - 951
Orodreth 951 - 994
Eldathorn 994 - 1031
Eldarion 1031 - 1107
Forodacil 1107 - 1176
Rhugga 1176 - 1235
Elenwen 1235 - 1307
Aldor 1307 - 1347
Timeline: Third Age
51 Annexation of the Hillman Kingdom as royal principality of Rhudaur. The ruling prince is appointed by the King, usually one of the younger brothers of the kings.
112 Annexation of the Eriadorian kingdom of Rhaglaw by King Valandil of Arnor.
164-166 Mong-Finn's Rebellion in Rhudaur. The Hillmen are defeated by Prince Eldacar. Founding of the citadel at Cameth Brin. House Melossë established as a Marcher lord.
500 High King Tarcil of Arnor campaigns against the Orcs of Gundabad and Goblin-gate. House Ilterendi granted status as Marcher Lords.
652 High King Valandur is slain during a revolt of the Hillmen of the eastern marches. Accession of King Elendur. House Maglilas granted the status as Marcher Lords in order to pacify the Ettenmoors.
861 Eärendur dies, splitting his kingdom into three. His youngest son Aldarion is crowned King of Rhudaur. House Endril established as the last Marcher Lords.
934 Tioviel Melossë dies and her son Iaundil becomes tir.
949 Aldarion attempts to reunite Arnor after the last of his brothers dies. The war ends in a mere skirmish at the Battle of Three Stones.
951 Orodreth crowned King in Rynd Morva Tarth after Aldarion is laid to rest in Bar Fernerain.
953-66 The border skirmishes become more serious, with livestock being taken and a few people are slain.
985 Prince Orothorn, heir to King Orodreth is murdered by a Hillmen, and a severe wergild is placed on the HIllmen.
986 Mt. Gram, a small dwarven mining settlement, falls to the goblins.
988 Eldathorn crowned King in Rynd Morva Tarth after Orodreth dies.
1005 Tir Heleghir Endril slays the cold drake Maeluigoll (S. Wise Seducer) on the slopes of Helegras (S. Ice Horn) in the Rhudaur spur of the Misty Mountains. His two children accompanied him. They are able to unite the Estaravë and the Lossoth as well as the dwarven troops of Carn Dum and fight the orcs of Mt. Gram who come to seize the treasure at the Battle of the Frozen Plain.
1010 Hillmen attempt an uprising, but it is brutally put down after the death of Tir Iaundil’s son Tinilildor Melossë.
1016 Goblins begin raiding the lands of Rhudaur
1022 Eldathorn begins mobilization of his army to defeat the Goblin Confederacy that had sprung up in the Misty Mountains.
1024 Tir Conuihir Endril dies in Mount Gram after infiltrating the mountain and diverting a mountain stream that floods part of the goblin’s halls.
1031 King Eldathorn slain by the goblins of Mt. Gram during a pitched battle outside its gates during the Siege of Mt. Gram. After his son Eldarion is crowned, the new King wages a bitter campaign against the goblins, lasting 10 years.
1041 Tir Ailil Melossë slain during an assault at Mt. Gram. Unable to break the siege, Eldarion ends the siege and fortifies Pen Morva.
1054 A dark figure named the Dark Sorcerer first appeared in the lands thath would become Angmar, and began gathering isolated goblin tribes under his control. At this time, Goblins of the Misty Mountains rise and begin raiding Rhudaurrim settlements.
1058 The largest gathering of goblins in over a thousand years marches into Rhudaur. King Eldarion summons his troops and met the enemy as they began to enter into the heart of Rhudaur. During the Battle of Himring, King Eldarion is knocked unconscious by a troll, and Tiril Collheryn Endril takes command of the Rhudaurrim army. She rallies the army, and sends the goblins fleeing in disorder. The goblins are so disorganized that they cannot assemble enough of their people for two years. Collheryn is granted the position of Marshal of Rhudaur.
1061 Tiril Collheryn Endril commands an army that smashes the Goblin Confederacy at the Battle of Penmorva. The tiril lures the goblin hordes out of their mountain fastness and crushes them with a surprise cavalry attack led by Tir Taladriemir Melossë. Two tribes of goblins are exterminated, and the rest are severely massacred. Tiril Collheryn personally led an assault on Mount Gram’s gate, but a mysterious spirit wrapped in black robes stopped the army at the gate, but he was driven away by the heroic actions of Collheryn, but not before he was able to cause a rock slide that sealed off the southern gate of the mountain.
1084 War rises between the sister kingdoms. Rhudaur and Arthedain dispute Cardolan’s attempt to control the palantír at Amon Sûl. The conflict becomes known as the War of the Weather Hills. Though the leaders attempt to keep bloodshed to a minimum, the death of Prince Valandil of Cardolan during the first Battle of Nen-i-Sûl makes the war even bloodier.
1086 Hillmen raise up in hopes of using the Cardolani war as a distraction. King Eldarion puts it down.
1087 Battle of Sarn Ford – Prince Celebwendir of Arthedain is slain by Raugatan Girithlin, who is slain by her husband Tiril Collheryn Endril.
1096 Fighting ends as Cardolan’s economy collapses due to the war. Amon Sûl’s status reverts to what it was before the conflict. Collheryn Endril lays down her marshal’s staff and tiril circlet to her son.
c. 1100 The first immigration of Hobbits into Rhudaur occurs when a tribe of Harfoot found the village of Glendown in the Angle.
1102 A large raid by the orcs of Mt. Gram causes damage to Maglilas lands as well as the royal holdings around Pen Morva. King Eldarion marches north and defeats the orcs at the Battle of the Ettendales.
1103 Eldarion lays siege to Mt Gram again.
1105 Eldarion’s youngest son Hallas is slain during a campaign against the orcs.
1107 Eldarion dies of a broken heart early in the year. Forodacil takes up his father’s crown.
1108 The siege of Mt. Gram ends.
1138 Tensions begin to mount between Rhudaur and Cardolan. Petty raids of burning and stealing livestock slowly build into more serious border raids.
1139 Cardolan mounts a punitive raid into Ilterendi lands, briefly laying siege to Dol Gil.
1140 Fëafuin uses his newly discovered machine-golem to penetrate deeply into Fëotar lands and batter down the gates of Othrond, Cardolan’s most prominent fortress near Rhudaur’s border. In light of Rhudaur’s new weapon, Cardolan endeavors to make peace with Rhudaur. They propose marriage between Prince Calimendil and Cenàriel Endril. This angers King Forodacil who suspects treachery on the part of House Endril. Peace is agreed upon.
1142 King Forodacil marries Gilthoniel Ilterendi.
1144 A fire in Coron Iaur kills the tir’s mother and grandmother, as well as his sister Maedhwen. Many suspect Tir Elvemir Maglilas.
1145 Arthonion and Arthoniel, twin children of King Forodacil and Gilthoniel, are born at Rynd Morva Tarth on 20 February (30 Nénimë), the first day of Aerandir. At Dunno, Mordaewen Maglilas gives birth to Rhugga and his still-born sister. It is said that every Baobhan Sith in the Trollshaws cried out the moment of Rhugga’s birth. Also, that night there is an eclipse of the moon.
1146 Hillmen rise up in rebellion, led by Mordaewen.
1150 Fallohide tribes of Hobbits enter into Rhudaur and settle along the banks of the Loudwater and found the village of Willowbend.
1161-8 Bountiful harvests abound across the kingdom during what would be called the “Seven Bountiful Years”.
1169 A sizable orc raiding party strikes across the Oiolad, intent on attacking Barad Calnë.
1170 A deadly fever sweeps across the kingdom, born on a north wind from the plains of Angmar. One in twenty people die from it. The Queen herself dies from it, despite the best efforts and the last minute appearance of the Wizard Curunír. Princess Arthoniel is taken as Curweb Erui (S. "first skillful (person)"; Apprentice) of Curunír.
1171 A disease strikes the cattle and sheep of the kingdom, killing over half of the livestock. An earthquake strikes Dol Duniath, destroying it.
1172 Arthonion, crown prince of Rhudaur, is slain during the Battle of the Ford of Raunbrôg against rebellious House Maglilas. Arthoniel becomes Forodacil’s heir. Rhugga becomes Tark Arm. King Forodacil marries Thurdaewen Maglilas in a move to secure his northern tir.
1173 With House Maglilas weakened, orcs begin raiding in the north, even going as far as besieging Penmorva briefly. Despite this, the crops were one of the bountifulness since 1163.
1174 The coldest winter weather freezes the country from September to May of the next year. Hungry White Wolves range as far south as the Great East Road, devouring any prey they can find.
1175 After the snows and ice melt, flooding is rampant along the Mitheithel and Bruinen. The banks of the Mitheithel are so full that no one can cross from the Mithannon to the Old Bridge. At Fennas Drúnin, the water is the highest in recorded history.
1176 “In that year there was seen a star in the night sky, wonderful to behold, throwing out behind it a beam of light of the thickness of a pillar in size and of exceeding brightness, foreboding what would come to pass in the future:” Arthoniel, crown princess of Rhudaur, is assassinated when Tir Elvemir Maglilas discovers Arthoniel is seeking Tir Maeghir Endril’s hand in marriage. She is placed in the Craig of the Dead Kings, where she rests under a Life-keeping spell cast by Fëafuin. Reginal, an illegitimate daughter of Forodacil, is taken by Dunnish raiders and Lylludd, the Dunnish High Chief, makes her his wife. King Forodacil sends his forces after his daughter. Without any military, Cameth Brin is vulnerable to attack. Seizing the opportunity, the ever rebellious Hillmen strike. Forodacil is slain during a surprise coup by the Hillman Rhugga the Usurper. The Dúnedain are driven out of Cameth Brin and all the Trollshaws. Elenwen, the King’s nominal heir, is captured by the Hillmen and raised by them. The kingdom is in an uproar as the tiri must fend for themselves. Rhugga is crowned King by his mother as the common Rhudaurrim rally around the Hillman chieftain.
1177 Rhugga begins his integration of his Hillmen and Dúnedain and Haëredain subjects. Mellelleth Ilterendi rebels against her brother Tir Padathir Ilterendi. An abortive attack is made by the Dúnedain in the south. They lay siege to Dol Cultirith, but the Hillmen attack their supply lines and the Dúnedain retreat. Half of Pinnach Aegring is lost to the Hillmen.
1181 Battle of the Plains – Tir Padathir, with Hillmen help, fight the rebels led by Mellelleth. The rebels are defeated, and forced to flee to the far southwest, splitting Dún Glandagol.
1189 Disease sweeps through Rhudaur, leaving behind many dead.
1197 Calimendil, King of Cardolan, begins to assemble an army to conquer Rhudaur, which had fallen under Rhugga. Calimendil's claim stems from his mother, Fororían sister of King Forodacil.
1210 Rhugga takes Elenwen as his wife.
1217 Calimendil, King of Cardolan, crosses the Rhudaur border and battles to regain the crown of Rhudaur.
1219 All of Rhudaur save the Trollshaws falls to Cardolani forces. The next years are spent trying to pin down the Hillmen rebels and find Forodacil’s Heir.
1220 Princess Dunrían Rhudainor, the Rhudaurorn with the best claim to the throne, has her troops begin the long road to attack Cameth Brin after Calimendil begins his war. The first attack on Dol Cultirith ends in disaster and Dunrían has to rebuild her forces for the next fifteen years.
1235 The Year of Three Monarchs. Early in the year after the snow melts (Gwirith) Rhugga is slain in battle. Two months later (Nórui), Elenwen’s army is trapped at Cameth Brin, and Calimendil destroys it. The Usurper’s head was put on a spear to observe Calimendil’s coronation and the taking of his wife. The night after his coronation, orcs from Mt. Gram arrive, and the Cardolani are trapped. Calimendil and many of his nobles are slain during the fighting. The goblin king presents the crown to Elenwen and she is crowned queen by the assembled Rhudaurrim. Calimendil’s line disappears, though there was a sighting of his granddaughter Princess Fororían, and of Queen Elenwen herself giving birth to Prince Aragund’s bastard nine months after the massacre.
1247 The Rhudaurorn descendants of House Maglilas form their own kingdom of Ceredigion.
1256 Tir Padathir Ilterendi’s attempt to carve his own kingdom out of the Oiolad fails when Queen Elenwen’s army storms Barad Calnë and slays Padathir. The kingdom of Tegwared is formed from its remains.
1259 The Accords of Iant Methed are signed. The agreement recognizes Elenwen’s claim on the throne, and grants the tiri near independence.
1264 Aldor’s son Bragotail Maglilas and Elenwen's daughter Kôradaphel Lothurin is born.
1267 The Dwarven fortress of Gundabad falls to the orcs led by Balcog
1270 A leader called the Witch King appears among the Angmarrim. Many Lords swear allegiance to him to spare their lands from the Orc-plundering. The Dwarven hold of Barazbizar (Carn Dum) is taken four years later. Within ten years, the kingdom of Angmar becomes established.
1296 The death of Princess Dunrían ends her house's active role in recovering the throne of Rhudaur. Her daughter Arthuriniel had married Dunestel’s heir, and the hopes of a reunited House Rhudainor lie with their son Orodreth.
1297 After her power base was lost, Elenwen became desperate to keep hold of what power she had. She offered negotiations with Tir Auredhir Eldanar and all of his sons under the banner of truce, no weapons allowed, at the castle of Penmorva. But the truce was a deception. Assassins from Angmar had hidden themselves in a closet where the Eldanar men were staying, and slew all four men, crippling Eldanar leadership for years to come, and allowing the construction of the Angmarean castle of Barad Morkai on the Eldanar border.
1306 Collheryn Endril dies, leaving the question of the leadership of the Pinnach Aegring in question between her great-grandaughter Sûladheryn Endril and her illegitimate half-brother.
1307 Queen Elenwen dies on the last day of the year. Her son Aldor, son of Peddtyc, is crowned. But Aldor is not able to hold the kingdom togather and it fragments.
1325 Dyr Eldanar is captured and its tir slain. His heirs escape to Arthedain.
1335 The armies of the Witch-King cross the Southern Spur and invade Rhudaur. The Hillmen offer weak resistance, and most often they are ready to swear allegiance to the newcomers. But Aldor summons a mysterious force and sends back the orcs, leaving the Angmarrim army unsupported by their shock troops.
1336 Rule over the western part of Dyr Eldanar is re-established by the heir of the last tir, supported by Arthedain.
1347 Driven mad by his quest for magic, Aldor is murdered in his bed by his steward. His dubious son Elagost is crowned King.
1352 Angmar invades Rhudaur, pushing most of the weak King’s forces aside. Most of the army quickly switches its loyalty to Angmar.
1355 Spurred by his paramour tiril Sûladheryn Endril, Elagost attempts to reassert his power. The King is slain, and Angmar drops all pretenses of ruling through the line of descent from the old lines. Galmarad the Steward takes the throne. Celebendil Melossë and Sûladheryn Endril rebel, but are put down. Endril lands are briefly conquered and Tiril Sûladheryn is slain. During the winter, Minas Brethil is destroyed and tir Celebendil and all of his family, save his pregnant wife, are slain.
1356 After the spring planting, King Argeleb I of Arthedain crosses over the Oiolad to enforce upon the Rhudaurrim his title as King of Arnor, but Rhudaur’s ranks were swelled with Angmarrim, and Galmarad surprises the Arthedain King after his army crosses the Mitheithel and heads south towards the capital of Rhudaur. Battle of Onar’s Field where King Argeleb is slain and Arthedain army retreats. King Galmarad then invades Arthedain on the false pretense of control of Amon Sûl’s palantír. The intervention of Cardolan saves the Northern kingdom from the Rhudaurrim invasion.
1387 Galmarad dies during a quarrel with one of his chieftains over a serving girl during a drinking feast. Argil the Great is crowned in Cameth Brin.
1397 Orcs lay siege to Copperhold, a small dwarven mansion in Rhudaur.
1399 Copperhold falls to the orcs of the High Pass.
1407 A late spring freeze strikes most of Arthedain and parts of northern Cardolan. Almost the entire wheat crop fails.
1408 Argil assassinated when Angmar decides that he is not making proper progress in preparation for the upcoming war. Kingship is somewhat murky, as Angmarrim control moves in. Finally, General Methdarin of Angmar takes the crown in order to prepare for the invasion the next year. Tirthôn becomes the first Gondyrn-onen-Egladil (a series offorts on the Melosse northern border) to fall before winter sets in.
1409 The rest of the Beacon towers of the Melosse falls as Angmarrim troops secure the Angle as a base of operations, stockpiling supplies. When the Hoarwell freezes in early spring for the first time in its history, the Witch-King leads Angmar’s armies west. Caught by surprise, Arthedain and Cardolan mobilize their armies, with Cardolan taking longer due to the distance they have to travel. Weathertop is destroyed, and the kings of Arthedain and Cardolan are slain.
1410 Methdarin is slain by Hîr Paurhir Endril, later known as Kingslayer, and the Angmarrim loose direct control of Rhudaur. Dunblae, a Dunman, takes the throne.
1421 Dunblae dies on Paurhir’s blade during a raid on Cameth Brin, and his son Tigh takes the throne.
1432 Belegorm becomes King after he defeats Tigh in battle.
1447 After Belegorm is slain during a battle with Angmar, Guthmund, a Northron mercenary, steps in as ruler of Rhudaur.
1453 The Dunnish chieftainess Urd ni Caedyn takes the throne after Guthmund bores with ruling the kingdom and leaves for Rhovanion.
1464 Madoc ap Urd takes the throne after his mother is slain by trolls. Encouraged by Angmarean silver and weapons, he begins to gather the Hillmen for the attack.
1466 The Great Raid on Arthedain occurs. Most of the tribes supported by several orc tribes penetrate deeply into Arthedain, reaching as far as seeing Fornost. Madoc takes Nendiniel Eketta as his wife forcibly.
1489 Kryn ap Madoc is put on the Rhudaur throne after his father is slain by Eketta forces. Kryn slays some of his Dúnedain kin.
1504 Belegon, son of Belegorm, ambushes Kryn and his guards with the aid of Tir Paurhir, slaying the ruling King. Belegon takes the throne of Rhudaur.
1514 Belegon is slain during a punitive raid against House Maglilas at the Battle of Keláthad. Belegduin his son takes the crown.
1525 Battle of the Fords of Raunbrôg – Stopping the Angmarrim crossing of the Hoarwell at Amon Raunbrôg, King Belegduin bloodied the Angmarrim invasion force, but fell to the club of a troll chieftain.
1549 Angmar has gathered enough troops to straighten the crisis on its southern border. Beregor is eventually forced into the Ornuil Valley.
1551 Vanadil Maglilas assumes the throne after Beregor in despair disappears. Vanadil’s arrogance grows and quarrels with Angmar. His wife is Lochmal ni Kryn, daughter of King Kryn.
1554 Vanadil Maglilas meets a violent end when his wife sticks a dagger into him while he is sleeping with his mistress. Briam, the Dunlending High Chief, assumes the throne.
1579 Cadarn is crowned King of Rhudaur.
1589 Paurhir is slain by Angmarrim Ulgarin Twilight, a Half-elven sorceress from eastern Endor, who holds the post of Speaker of the Dark Cult, the second most important position in Angmar. Half of the elite Black Rangers are slain with the Kingslayer. His son Mablung is acclaimed the new Tir of Endril, but is raised in exile in Arthedain and Lindon.
1591 Some of the fiercest fighting between Cardolan and Rhudaur breaks out.
1593 Fuinlôr slays Cadarn and crowns himself King of Rhudaur.
1627 Fuinlôr is slain by Morvudur, the Northern Slayer. Ermegil, Captain of Fuinlôr’s Trererath troops, replaces him.
1630 Ermegil invades the Angle with a force of mercenaries and Rhudaurrim levies. Lady Aelflaed is forced out of her lands after her daughter Eorein was captured by Ermegil.
1631 Mablung travels back to Rhudaur, he heads to Cameth Brin. He visits the burial chambers of the last King’s family, and there raises Arthoniel, last of the daughters of the line of Aldarion. Arthoniel is raised from the dead on 23 September (2 Narquelië) (Last day of Ariel)
1632 With Princess Arthoniel, Mablung searches Rhudaur for the Rod of the Rhudainors.
1634 Arthoniel travels to Arthedain to continue her study of magic. Mablung takes this time to gather enough men to retake Rhudaur.
1637 Plague strikes Rhudaur. Arthoniel returns to both the Highlands and Lowlands without Mablung’s knowledge. Arthoniel tries to ease the sickness of the Plague in the lands of Rhudaur.
1638 Last year of Plague. Arthoniel gains Trust from the people of Rhudaur as she attempts to heal the sick. Eorein Melosse marries Bemakinda, the great Canotar general.
1640 Tiril Eorein Melossë’s forces begin attacking Rhudaur. After marching along the Bruinen, and crossing at the Fords, she comes in behind Ermegil’s forces. Broggha’s Hillmen stay out of the conflict, letting the lowlanders fight it out amongst themselves. Fennas Drúnin is taken intact when the gates of that city were opened from the inside by Arthoniel and Mablung Endril. Within five weeks, the land south of the Great East Road and west of Hoarwell are freed. The Angle is taken, and control of the Great East Road stretches from Amon Sûl to Rivendell. Other forces under Arthoniel begin raiding deeper into Ermegil’s land, freeing western Rhudaur. Barad Calnë rebuilt and occupied by Mablung Endril. Barad Calen rebuilt by the heirs of House Ilterendi.
1643 Thuin Boid is expanded, and many refugees from Cardolan settle in the Angle.
1644 An attempt is made by King Ermegil to invade the Angle, but falls apart when Tir Tinrandil Maglilas dies during the siege of Tirthôn. Any Hillmen support of Ermegil falls with the northern Tir. The Angmarrim occupation of Minas Brethil is ended by an assault on the ruined keep by the mercenary Duinhir Crannherth, and he rebuilds the keep without Tiril Eorein Melossë’s knowledge or permission. After a brief standoff, Duinhir and Eorein settle their difference and agree to marry.
1645-48 The Hillman Revolt in Rhudaur against the Angmarean puppet rulers.
1647 Forces under Arthoniel begin assembling in the Angle for war the next summer.
1648 Ermegil is slain by Mablung at the Battle of Dol Cultirith. Angmar establishes Broggha on the throne as King. Raids into the Angle increase.
1654 Battle of Amon Agarwaen. Major defeat of Hillmen forces as they try to force their way into the Angle. Mablung was waiting for the Hillmen to step into his trap, and almost 500 Hillmen fell before they broke and retreated into the Trollshaws. Disunity among the tribes begins to fracture Broggha’s power.
1655 Disaster strikes when Maschbram, Ermegil's steward, captures Arthoniel. Broggha falls to Maschbram's intrigues, and Angmar sends the Northern Slayer to bring the Hillmen into line. Maschbram is put on the throne, with Arthoniel as his unwilling queen. She escapes a month later to Rivendell with the aid of a captive elf.
1665 Second Invasion of Rhudaur by Arthoniel’s forces. Her troops leave the Angle and Oiolad and fight in the Trollshaws and Ettenmoors; Eldanar and Cameth Brin put under siege. Cameth Brin captured in spring.
1666 Arthoniel and Mablung quarrel and go their separate ways. Bruggha is acclaimed Targ-Arm by the Hillmen tribes.
1667 Bruggha proposes an alliance and marriage to Arthoniel. She accepts and is married late in the summer. The day after their wedding, an Angmarrim army invades, and they flee Cameth Brin. They are forced out of all conquered land except the Trollshaws, the Angle, and parts of the Oiolad by Maschbram’s troops by late fall.
1668 Arthoniel gives birth to twins. She and Bruggha quarrel, and separate. Arthoniel takes up residence at Herubar Gûlar, and Bruggha resides with his Hillmen.
1669 Maschbram is slain by Mablung at the Battle of Glen a Creag, but all of Arthoniel’s forces are pushed back to the Angle and Oiolad by Angmarrim troops. Korekalwen, a Silvan elf, seduces Bruggha to Angmar's side; Bruggha is crowned King of Rhudaur in Cameth Brin after promising to serve Angmar. The kingdom is fractured. Forces loyal to Arthoniel are pushed back into the Angle. Mablung is exiled and marries the Pelenwen, the Hîril Tyrn Gorthad
1670 Princess Alquawen, fiancée to King Arvegil of Arthedain, is kidnapped by Bruggha’s men as part of a plot initiated by the Witch King to draw out the forces of the Dúnedain.
1671 Early in the year Caranthir, an ex-patriot Arthedain requain, rescues Alquawen, and the Angmarrim forces in the Oiolad are ambushed and wiped out by a combined Arthedain/Endril ambush. Korekalwen is captured. Stalemate settles in between Arthoniel and Bruggha.
1672 Mablung slays Umaug, chief of the orc tribe the Backbreakers, during a battle in the late snows of early spring. By mid-spring, Bruggha relents and reconsolidates with Arthoniel. Arthoniel give birth in the last month of the year to a son, Clennan, a sign of their reconciliation.
1687 Cathair secretly heads to Carn Dûm to recover Rhudaur’s crown, but is captured by the Witch King’s men. His will is broken, and is sent back to Rhudaur as the Witch King’s man.
1688 Cathair tricks Arthoniel and Mablung into a tryst, and Mablung is exiled to his lands.
1689 Angmar invades Rhudaur, led by the Troll Rogrog. Mablung fights at the battle of Pen Morva, is injured by Rogrog but defeats the western wing. The Rhudaurrim eastern army on the Trollshaws side of the Hoarwell is broken after the betrayal of House Maglilas. Cathair leads the Cultirith rangers during the siege against his mother and father.
1690 Cameth Brin falls, King Bruggha slain by Rogrog. The Princes Clennan and Comyn fall as well. Arthoniel flees to Barad Calen with her daughter and a small band of followers during the winter. Fëafuin sends the last of his constructs out of Herubar Gûlar, and saves the fleeing royal party, but later pays the price when the Angûlion visits.
1691 Carlina gives birth to her daughter Bronwyn. The father is Zimrubâr, the son of King Ostoher taken at Tyrn Gorthad by Angûlion and raised in the service of Angmar.
1692 Barad Calen falls, and Mablung flees east with Arthoniel and Bronwyn. Black Rangers, led by Cathair, track them across the Trollshaws, until they almost come to Rivendell. Pelenwen dies, and Mablung flees east with the remaining Haëredain. Mablung weds Arthoniel in Rivendell at the end of the year.
1693 Carlina becomes the last Tark Arm of the Hillmen.
1696 Short on rations and frustrated by his inability to track down the last Hillmen; Rogrog dines on Elebrindir Maglilas and his men, wiping out Coron Iaur.
1698 The last of the Hillmen are wiped out in Rogrog’s War. Carlina is taken to Carn Dûm by General Khursh. Rogrog is severely wounded by Mablung and Arthoniel. Mablung and Arthoniel move with all remaining Haëredain into Eregion. Rogrog tries to take Fennas Drúnin, but he fails when Celebendil Melossë slays him at the gates of the town.
1700 Mablung begins the search for Carlina. Unknown to him she is sent to Dol Guldur.
1701 Arthoniel gives birth to Arthonion. Mablung stumbles across the Angmarrim trader that took Carlina to Dol Guldur. Mablung presses him to take him there.
1705 Arthoniel gives birth to Cebermoth, her son by Mablung. Carlindi dies at Dol Guldur.
1726 Mablung slain by trolls in the Ettenmoors. They were tracking him with the aid of Ulgarin Twilight. His body and arms were recovered by Arthedain rangers and returned to his widow as a sign of respect.
1851 Angmar invades Arthedain in a winter campaign, but overstretches its supply line.
1856 Arthoniel and Ulgarin Twilight battle it out in Cameth Brin. Both are slain by the explosions inside the fortress. Thenidîr bares his mistress to her grave, and seals her back into her crypt for the last time. Released from the favorable influences of his mother, Cebermoth begins exploring Rhudaur in earnest. Arthonion takes up the Chieftainship of the Haëredain.
1891-1892 The Red Flux (influenza) sweeps through Eriador. Up to a tenth of all people die.
1907 Cebermoth falls into darkness, and tries to raise the trolls of the Trollshaws along with the half-troll Yngrog
1974 An early cold fall freezes the Mitheithel River, and Angmar forces sweep west for one last time. The Arthedain army stumbles, and is swept to the Lhûn. Arthonion, Chief of the Rhudaurrim, falls in battle. His son, Russandol becomes the Ardolen. Helkarod escapes from Fornost with Arfiniel daughter of the King of Arthedain.
1975 Gondor and Lindon send aid, and crush Angmarrim forces. Haëredain forces act as Elrond’s guard when he enters Carn Dûm.
1990 Grulag, last of the Witch-King's Olog-hai, takes over from Cebermoth and Yngrog. The two become his lieutenants.
2720-2750 Orcs invade Cardolan, slaying or driving off most of the remaining Eriadorians. An attack on Tharbad fails, and the orcs drift away due to lack of plunder. Fëotar ceases to exist as a united realm, and Súduri becomes the political center of the Gwathló settlements. Similar orcish raids in the north devastate Bree-land.
2758-2759 The Long Winter. Five months of icy, freezing weather chill the hearts of all in Eriador, causing great loss of life. Haradaic Corsairs conquer the coastal areas of Eriador as part of the war, but divert their strength in assisting in the Dunnish attack against Rohan and do not penetrate farther north than Tharbad.
2760-2800 Local Eriadorian forces, aided by the Rangers, organize revolts and drive the Corsairs from their bases along the coasts.
2911 The Fell Winter. Rivers freeze, including the Brandywine. White Wolves roam Eriador.
2912 Unprecedented floods following the Fell Winter destroy the Great Bridge and devastate Tharbad (which is abandoned).
List of Battles
0949 Battle of Three Stones- not much fighting went on, but it began the armed conflict between the three sister kingdoms.
1058 Battle of Himring -
1041 Battle of Penmorva - Tiril Collheryn Endril commands an army that smashes the Goblin Confederacy at the Battle of Penmorva. The tiril lures the goblin hordes out of their mountain fastness and crushes them with a surprise cavalry attack led by Tir Celendel Melossë. Two tribes of goblins are exterminated, and the rest are severely massacred. Tiril Collheryn personally led an assault on Mount Gram’s gate, but a mysterious spirit wrapped in black robes stopped the army at the gate, but he was driven away by the heroic actions of Collheryn, but not before he was able to cause a rock slide that sealed off the southern gate of the mountain.
1084 Battle of Nen-i-Sûl – Collheryn commands Rhudaur’s forces. Using the Nen-i-Sûl to block Cardolan’s superior Ragger forces, the Cardolani elect to fight under a severe disadvantage. Prince Valandil, the brother of Collheryn’s son-in-law, attempts to force his way out of the losing battle by heading straight towards Collheryn. During the ensuing battle, Collheryn slays Valandil. After his death, the Cardolani loose heart, and Collheryn withdraws as the Cardolani forces head back into their lands.
1172 Battle of Amon Raunbrôg – House Maglilas, encouraged by Kalabphazgân, the fell Black Númenórean sorcerer, Elvemir Maglilas raised up his levies and rebelled against King Forodacil. Kalabphazgân captured a fell beast called a tarwegni (Hi. Bull of Might), one of the creatures of fairies, and gave control of the creature to Elvemir. The creature quickly routed the royal forces at Penmorva on the field of battle in the summer of 1172, and a siege set in. Word made it to Cameth Brin, and a royal relief force was sent north. Commanded by Prince Arthonion himself, the young heir of King Forodacil slew the tarwegni when the two armies joined in battle at Amon Raunbrôg. The Maglilas troops began to break at the death of their main weapon, when Elvemir, aided by the magic of Kalabphazgân, made it past the prince’s guards and stabbed Arthonion, slaying him. Maeghir Endril, the King’s Marshal, tried to save the prince, but failing that, he tried to slay Elvemir. After crossing blades with the Marshal, Elvemir lost his right arm above the elbow, and would have lost his head if Kalabphazgân and Mortereg had not intervened. With the death of the prince, the royal forces departed the battlefield in good order, while the death of the tarwegni took the fight out of the Maglilas forces. Two weeks later, Elvemir’s niece Anuwen and her daughter Thurdaewen arrived at Cameth Brin to sue for peace.
1176 Hillmen Rebellion – Rhugga, the Hillman High Chief, used King Forodacil’s sorrow after the death of his daughter to rise up in rebellion. The King and most of his court was slain, and the Rhudaurrim Dunlendings followed the Hillmen’s lead. Saeros Eldanar,
1176 Battle of Bregolad’s Steading – Rhugga’s Easterling allies and some of his Hillmen, believing that the Dúnedain of Rhudaur are totally defeated, headed across the Oiolad to claim Collheryn’s dragon treasure. They are met at the small hamlet of Bregolad’s Steading by Endril’s forces led by Calenhir Endril. Only one out of ten of the invaders made it back across the Hoarwell after being soundly defeated. The victory was not without cost, for Calenhir was slain during the battle.
1181 Battle of Dol Bruinen – Tir Padathir, with Hillmen help, storm the rebels led by Mellelleth at this castle. The rebels are defeated, and forced to flee to the Angle.
1235 Battle of Cameth Brin – For fifteen years King Calimendil of Cardolan, nephew to King Forodacil, fought and battled the Hillmen in order to regain the crown. Finally, the Usurper was trapped at Cameth Brin. The fortress was breached for the first time, and Rhugga was slain and his young wife and Calimendil’s cousin Elenwen was captured. The victorious army began celebrations, but the arrival of the orcs of Mt. Gram summoned by Rhugga descended upon the wearied army, and most of the leadership of the army, including the King, were slain. Elenwen became heir and took command of the army that had been captured by the orcs. Kings Rhugga and Calimendil slain.
1355 Battle of the Ford of Carandor – Radhruin Ilterendi sought to stop the Rhudaur King from crossing into his lands. He was successful, though Radhruin fell.
1355 Battle of Dol Gil – besieged during the open stage of the First Northern War, Rhudaur captured the important fortress on the Great Eastern Road. Tir Glirhuin Eldanar was slain during the siege.
1356 Battle of Minas Brethil – Early in the First Northern War Angmar’s forces had to neutralize Celebendil’s forces in order to secure the attacking army’s left flank. The fortress was destroyed, and House Melossë exiled. Tir Celebendil Melossë slain.
1356 Battle of Dol Gil – After Minas Brethil was destroyed, Dol Gil was next. This critical castle on the Great East Road was first isolated by Wolf Riders, then the walls breached by orc engineers.
1356 Battle of Barad Calnë – The main Angmarrim army headed towards Amon Sûl sent a sizeable detachment to besiege Barad Calnë and Tiril Sûladheryn Endril. She was slain, but the bulk of her army was able to flee via hidden tunnels, and was able to head west and warn Arthedain’s eastern fortresses.
1407 Battle of Tirthôn – although besieged many times during the struggle between Melossë forces and Dol Cultirith forces, this time was the most serious to date. Angmar covertly sent silver and orcs to aid in the taking of this key tower and gateway to the Angle. Marendil Rhudainor was slain, but Uialglin Tyrn Gorthad, acting as a mercenary, took command and beat off the attack, which included the Blogath sent by the Easterling commander.
1408 Battle of Tirthôn – All pretense of only internal Rhudaurrim involvement disappeared when Angmar set siege to this watch tower. Melossë forces were quickly taken by sorcery in one day.
1408 Battle of Thuin Boid – this fort was a greater struggle, but it took two weeks to take the walls and massacre the defenders.
1408 Battle of the Angle – more of a retreat than a battle, Angmar’s advancing force met their first defeat, if it could be called a defeat, when they failed to encircle the retreating Melossë forces. As a consequence, Vulfredda Melossë was able to escape with most of her remaining cavalry intact. Angrim Eldanar died
1408 Battle of the Ford of Carandor – Betrayed by his own son, Radros Ilterendi and most of his house’s army fell in this prelude to the Second Northern War.
1409 Battle of Amon Sûl – After defeating the men of Cardolan at the Battle of Tryn Gorthad, Angmar’s armies wheels north and surrounds the fortress of Weathertop. Damrod Eldanar,
1421 Battle of Iant Methed – Tir Paurhir ambushes King Dunblae’s Dunlending forces as they try to force their way across the bridge. Paurhir’s superior but fewer forces effectively block the more numerous Dunlending army. King Dunblae slain when he tried to rally his men.
1447 Battle of the Fords of Bruinen –
1453 Battle of Tagulari – King Beregor tried to beat back a force of Angmarrim mercenaries at this town. The King was slain and his heirs fled to the lands of House Ilterendi.
1525 Battle of the Fords of Raunbrôg – Stopping the Angmarrim crossing of the Hoarwell at Amon Raunbrôg, King Belegduin bloodied the Angmarrim invasion force, but fell to the club of a troll chieftain.
1551 Battle of Carandor – Orcs from the High Pass invaded the Ornuil Valley. Prince Hulorn, son of King Beregor, was slain, sending his father into a fit of depression.
1551 Battle of Morfadu – The remaining forces loyal to Beregor were defeated by Vanadil Maglilas, and retreated back to Ilterendi lands.
1591 Battle of Thuin Boid – During an excursion against King Cadarm, Hilfwyn Melossë fell in battle.
1593 Battle of Tref Ysted – King Cadarm arrayed his army against Fuinlôr, a contender for his throne. Not much of a fight occurred, as the King’s army went over to the golden tongued mage. The King was captured and his throat slit in front of the assembled armies.
1630 Battle of Thuin Boid – King Ermegil boldly thrust aside Melossë forces and took the fort, including Eorein Melossë, the heir of House Melossë. Aelflaed Melossë left the Angle, and regrouped in the Cantons of Fëotar.
1640 Battle of Fennas Drúnin – a small band of troops sneaked into the city before the siege began, led by Arthoniel and Mablung Endril themselves, and the gates were opened to the besieging forces of Eorein Melossë.
1640 Battle of Iant Methed – Fought on the heels of the Battle of Fennas Drúnin, Ermegil’s reinforcements were blocked from entering the Angle and saving his remaining forces south of the Great East Road.
1644 Battle of the Fords of Bruinen (Arthoniel’s War) – King Ermegil sent a large army from Buhr Calden that tried to penetrate the eastern portion of the Angle’s frontier. After his surprise attack was discovered, the battle was a draw, and Ermegil withdrew.
1644 Battle of Buhr Calden – After the battle at the Fords, Arthoniel marched north and in a surprise move laid siege to Buhr Calden. The fortress was taken, and many of Ermegil’s troops fled, although many without their arms and armor.
1644 Battle of Cethrwyd Road – The Maglilas Bogs blocked the path from Buhr Calden, so the Cethrwyd Road from Dol Cultirith to Cameth Brin was taken. A fierce, bloody battle was fought between the Hillmen allies of Ermegil and the infantry of Arthoniel. Despite the heavy fighting, the superior tactics and leadership of Mablung and discipline of his troops brutalized the Hillmen, and they withdrew from any direct fighting, and used only small bands to harass any weakly guarded supply trains.
1644 Battle of Sruth Boghain – the gateway to the Cameth Brin valley was fought for two days. Arthoniel won the battle, but within sight of Cameth Brin, the arrival of Angmarrim troops under the command of the Mortur Dâurukh forced a retreat back towards the Angle.
1645 Battle of Tirthôn – the preliminary battle of the year, Tirthôn was besieged, but Arthoniel showed up and forced Ermegil’s troops to abandon the watch tower.
1645 Battle of Yfelwood – A week after Tirthôn, Ermegil’s forces met Arthoniel’s. The forest prevented Arthoniel from using her superior cavalry and archers, and allowed Ermegil’s Dunnish forces to maximize their efficiency. But Mablung, Arthoniel’s marshal, did not allow his forces to become too entangled in the battle.
1645 Battle of Dol Cultirith – Retreating to this castle after the Battle of Yfelwood, both sides battled it out, but Arthoniel’s forces withdrew after not having enough troops to create an effective siege and the threat of reinforcements from Cameth Brin.
1646 Battle of Nothva Rhaglaw – Ermegil’s forces tried to circumvent Arthoniel’s forces, but warned by spies she met Ermegil’s army north of town. So decisive was this victory that it took Ermegil two years to mount another attack.
1648 Battle of Dol Cultirith – Left with only his mercenary army, King Ermegil fought to the last against Arthoniel’s forces. When his army’s line broke, to a man the army fled, even Ermegil’s guards. At Dol Cultirith’s broken gates Ermegil faced Faniuhir Endril alone and died on his sword. The assembly of the Hillmen tribes caused Arthoniel to retreat back to the Angle. King Ermegil, Daeros Rhudainor,
1654 Battle of Amon Agarwaen – The watershed battle of this war, Broggha’s troops were reinforced by Angmarrim soldiers. Thrusting into the Angle, Mablung tried to stop the enemy by arraying his troops on this hill, while he kept his cavalry moving around behind the hill and harassing arriving enemy troops. After three days of bloody battle, Broggha withdraws his battered forces back into the Trollshaws.
1665 Battle of the Morva Dales – Maschbram must turn from marshaling his forces for an attack on the Angle to fend off an invading army coming in from the north.
1666 Battle of Buhr Calden – During the siege of the fortress, Malbeth Ilterendi sought to tie down the mercenaries north of his lands, but the chieftain in charge of the castle sallied forth, and Malbeth was slain and the siege was lifted.
1669 Battle of Glen a Craig – The two rivals of King Maschbram, Arthoniel and Bruggha ap Broggha, married and joined their forces against Maschbram. The largest army Arthoniel ever assembled encircled the vale around Cameth Brin, and at the southern entrance to the heart of the kingdom, the two armies fought. Maschbram was slain by Tir Faniuhir after Cameth Brin was taken. Eorein Melossë and Duinhir Crannherth
1672 Battle of the Crossings of Talathduin – An Angmarrim army is stopped from raiding south.
1675 Battle of Penmorva – The height of Arthoniel’s and Bruggha’s power, they set siege to the seat of the warden’s power in northern Rhudaur. The initial victory was dampened at the arrival of Angmar’s Morkai army. Arfanhil Angion
1689 Battle of Iant Methed – Brygath forces under Chukka, Tiril Ethelwyn Melossë’s lover, try to block Melossë levies from marching north to meet up with the rest of Rhudaur’s army. A sudden charge, backed up by the expert horse archers of Wodenwyn Melossë send the lightly armored Easterlings flying north.
1689 Battle of Rhaglaw River – The western levies of the kingdom, under Faniuhir Endril, stopped Angmar’s army under the dreaded warlord Rogrog from crossing the Rhaglaw River after a two day battle. Both sides were decimated, though the Angmarrim forces were stopped. Forweg Ilterendi, Calengol Eldanar,
1689 Battle of the Fords of Amon Raunbrôg – The mercenaries of Buhr Calden, the royal levies of Arthoniel, part of the Hillmen tribes, and House Maglilas prepared to stop the Angmarrim from crossing the Hoarwell at Amon Raunbrôg. But House Maglilas betrayed them, and the entire army was slain, captured, or scattered.
1689-90 Siege of Cameth Brin
1689 Battle of Dunno – The Hillmen forces from the Trollshaws assembled to rescue their King trapped in Cameth Brin, but inept leadership and division caused by Cathair, son of Bruggha defeated this attempt at a field army, and drove the Hillmen back into hiding in the Trollshaws.
1690 Fall of Cameth Brin – Princess Carlindi was ensorcelled by Zimrubâr, the Angmarrim warlord, and tricked into leading him and his troll guard into the dark Fuintir. Zimrubâr was ambushed by Bruggha and slain, but Rogrog, another warlord, fell King Bruggha and his loyal sons, and the Angmarrim horde followed him into the fortress. Queen Arthoniel and most of her court fled through a secret passage to Barad Calnë. King Bruggha, Ethelwyn Melossë, Fëafuin Minasfëa,
1692 Siege of Barad Calnë – only a skeleton guard was left when Angmar’s army arrived in late summer. Most of the people of the Oiolad had fled after the harvest to Fëotar, and only a few select warriors stayed at the battlements.
1694 Battle of Thuin Boid – An attempt is made to invade the Angle. Stiff resistance is met, and the Angmarrim turn back to their extermination of the Hillmen. Ningloriel Fëotar,
1698 Battle of Morfadu – the last of the Hillmen tribes is destroyed and Carlindi is taken by the Angmarrim.
1698 Battle of Fennas Drúnin – Angmar tries to take the town, but the weather turns against the Angmarrim for a change. Tir Celebendil slays the warlord Rogrog, and the second-in-command becomes satisfied with the destruction of Rhudaur and leaves for Angmar before the winter sets in.
List of Wars
1084-1096 War of the Weathered Hills
1103-1107 Siege of Mt. Gram
1176 Hillmen Rebellion
1215-1235 Cardolani War of Succession
1356-1359 First Northern War
1408-1410 Second Northern War
1514-1551 War of the Pinefells
1630-1631 Stonearm’s War
1640 Bemakinda’s War
1644-1654 Arthoniel’s War
1668-1669 Trollshaws War
1689-1698 Rogrog’s War