Hello fellow LOTR gamers,
I'm writing to share with you the LOTR RPG chronicle my group has been running as a "play by e-mail" game for the past several months. It is called "The Lord of Darkness", an imaginative story set in the 15th Year of the Fourth Age. King Elessar has called his retainers and allies to a 'Council of the North' in Rivendell to plan the long hoped-for campaign to crush the Orcs of Mount Gundabad, but the man once known as Aragorn is distraught over the disappearance of his old friend and servant, the Dunadan loremaster Belemir. Drawn together by destiny, a new Fellowship is dispatched from the Council by the King to locate the missing Belemir, who may have discovered a lost artifact of unspeakable evil and power. While searching for the lost loremaster, they confront an emerging darkness long forgotten in the West that threatens to engulf first Rhun and then all Middle-earth.
The story is available as a series of HTML pages on my website, mid-way down under "LOTR RPG Chronicle":
http://www.geocities.com/scott_metz
Part I and Part II of the story are complete and ready for you to read; Part III is still underway and will hopefully be uploaded soon. If you're interested, keep your eyes open for future announcements here. Thanks!