THE SECOND DARKNESS

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Twisted Tale of Years

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3019
March 13 - Frodo stung by Shelob and captured by orcs at Cirith Ungol.
March 14 - Sam finds Frodo and they escape.
March 15 - Battle of Pelenor. Win for Mordor against the armies of the West, but both sides suffered horrible casualties. Death of Merry and Theoden; capture of Eowyn. Eowyn is enchanted by a potion and thinks she is in love with the Witch-King, even though he is her captor. Ashgaz tried to prevent Eowyn from becoming enchanted by spilling the potion and calling upon the name of Elbereth. Angmar condemns Ashgaz to a pit of snakes.
March 16 - Khamul asks Angmar to release Ashgaz from the snakes. Angmar is angry at them both because he was busy with his "conquest of Rohan." Madurz confronts Angmar with her past, but he claims he can remember nothing. He causes her to have horrifying visions of snakes curling about her. Khamul and Ashgaz are also cursed with fire and ice.
March 17 - Khamul goes on scouting mission over the Pelenor Fields. He taunts the troops there, but Elfhelm, the captain of Merry and Eowyn's eored, challenges him. Khamul gives Elfhelm a mortal blow but in Elfhelm's dying moments, he stabs Khamul in the right thigh with Merry's blade of Westernsee. Khamul's beast receives a mortal wound by an arrow and in its death struggles flies many miles off course, finally landing in the East Emnet of Rohan. First day in search for Khamul. Sam's sword and mithril coat taken to Lugburz by Shagrat.
March 18 - Second day in search for Khamul. Frodo and Sam captured by orcs again at Isenmouthe. Discovery that they are hobbits.
March 19 - Third day in search for Khamul. The Witch-King takes Madurz and Ashgaz on the search. Khamul is found, but Madurz and Ashgaz are left behind after the Witch-King takes him back to Lugburz. That night, Angmar releases Eowyn from the first spell and her senses are restored. She knows then she hates him.
March 20 - Madurz and Ashgaz wander in the wilderness. Angmar torments Eowyn.
March 21 - They come to Amon Hen and have visions. Madurz just saw Mordor. Ashgaz saw Khamul in the spirit world and also looked at the Shire. Meeting with Niethan.
March 22 - Boat journey on the Anduin.
March 23 - Boat journey on the Anduin.
March 24 - Boat journey on the Anduin. Nazgul on fell beast sighted. The last shreds of Niethan's sanity come undone and he thinks he talks to the spirits of the dead. She loses her memory and thinks she is a girl called Maltriel. Under effects of the potion and spell, Eowyn thinks she sees Angmar's face, and she thinks it is the face of Aragorn, whom she loves at this point.
March 25 - Sauron gets the Ring back. Sam becomes a wraith. Boat journey on the Anduin. Madurz and Ashgaz arrive at ruins of Osgaliath and go to the east side of the river. They walk up the road towards Minas Morgul where they are met by orcs. A fight breaks out between Ashgaz, Niethan and the orcs. The Witch-King lands his fell beast and takes Madurz back to Lugburz. Ashgaz left behind to supervise the orcs guarding Niethan. Angmar tells Eowyn that she was from Gondor, a "vassal state of Mordor." She wants to be a shieldmaiden of Mordor and fight against the "overwhelming forces of the West." He gives her something to "help her sleep" but mixed with the sleeping potion was an increased dose of the potion that bemuses her mind and makes her think that he is really Aragorn.
March 26 - Late that night, Number Three comes for Ashgaz and takes him back to Minas Morgul. Angmar gives Eowyn sword lessons, but she fails miserably. He tells her that he will have a master swordsman teach her.
March 27 - Ashgaz is given permission to see his master Khamul again, but Khamul still rambles about doom, Valinor and judgment. Madurz walks by the hall and hears him calling and goes in. Khamul becomes intermittently lucid, but does recognize them both and then falls into a trance-like sleep.
March 28 - Ashgaz is wounded by the orc who has vowed vengance upon Khamul
March 31 - Reluctantly, Khamul says goodbye to Madurz and goes on another scout to the southern fiefdoms of Gondor.
April 1 - Lorien falls (According to Elrond's calculations)
April 3 - Farewell to Ashgaz. Ashgaz and Sam meet. Number Three and Khamul get into a betting game. Number Three offers ten horses for Ashgaz in a bet.
April 4 - Khamul and Madurz go to Gondor. Ashgaz left behind.
April 9 - Khamul and Madurz arrive at Gondor.
April 10 - First rain storm from the West descends.
April 21 - Angmar, Eowyn, Sam and Ashgaz set out for Gondor.
April 26 - Angmar, Eowyn, Sam and Ashgaz arrive in Gondor.
May 1 - Ashgaz and Sam free Niethan and other prisoners forced to work on the bridge at Osgiliath.
May 2 - Ashgaz and Sam punished by Angmar. Sam sentenced to remain under Angmar's chair for eternity; Peter sent back to Khamul with a warning.
May 3 - Discussion with Ashgaz of Maltriel's fate
May 10 - Sam and Ashgaz final farewell
May 11 - Sam arrives in Lugburz and is reunited with Frodo, who is chained to Sauron's throne, with Carcharoth the Wolf. The army sets out towards Edoras on the Great West Road. Fighting continues in Southern Gondor
May 12 - The army camps near Eilenach, 40 miles from Minas Tirith.
May 12-24 - The Army of Mordor continues on the Great West Road towards Rohan.
May 15 - The Corsairs leave Southern Gondor and pretend to sail down to the Bay of Belfalas. Instead, they sail south a while and then head back towards the Anduin. The Haradrim pretend to fall back and retreat east. Then they head north to Minas Tirith and follow the rest of the army on the Great West Road.
May 16 - Survivors retreat from Southern Gondor and go to the Fords of Isen, 400 miles away. This takes 30 days.
May 16 - Work on the Great Temple to Sauron in Minas Tirith temporarily suspends. Building will resume on June 30, after the plague has spent its course and it will be safe for men to go back to Minas Tirith.
May 24 - Khamul goes into the Firien Wood and challenges the Valar. He was given a warning from the Powers while he was there. The warning given is, "Only this. Only so far. You will break yourself against the Wizard's Wall and though you may profane Minas Tirith, the Temple that you build will surely fall."
May 25 - Ashgaz denounces Mordor and flees. The Army of Mordor camps a second day near the Merring Stream on the Border of Rohan. Angmar, mounted on a fell beast, joins him there.
May 26 - The army still camps at the Firien Wood.
May 27 - A messenger from Lugburz arrives at the army camp near Firien Woods. Sauron commands, "Ignore the warnings that Khamul received at the Tower of Halfirien; it is nothing more than a bluff by the Powers. Join both wings of the Army before you go to Edoras. Those forces already north of Mirkwood and from Dol Goldur will soon take care of Rivendell."
June 1 - First and Second Wings of the Army of Mordor break camp and march toward Edoras. Bad storm from the West delays army.
June 2 - Clear day. The cloud cover from Mordor is gone. Trolls and orcs have to hide in tents. The orcs are superstitious and feel great fear. Army reorganizes - Angmar takes the forces of Uruk-hai, light-resistant trolls and men, and orders them to march in the day. Khamul's Second Wing is composed of the orcs who must travel at night. Army now 130 miles away from Edoras
June 2 - Maltriel captured by Rohirrim
June 2 - Gandalf and Pippin say goodbye to refugees in the mountain valley. They must now travel 30 miles down the mountains to the Great West Road and 120 miles on the road to Orthnac. About 7 days on regular horse at 20 miles a day. They will do it in 3 1/2. The men and boys, survivors of the fall of Gondor, who are willing and able to fight are told by Gandalf to quicken their pace and march to the Fords of Isen (Projected date of arrival: June 8)
June 5 - The plague hits parts of Southern Gondor. However, the damage is not as severe as had been hoped by Mordor, due to the foresight of Gandalf and Aragorn, who lead a large group of the people to Rohan over the White Mountains.
June 5 - Maltriel and the company of Rohirrim arrive in Edoras, riding 50 miles a day.
June 6 - Gandalf and Pippin arrive in Orthnac
June 7 - The day that never seemed to end. Edoras abandoned. Maltriel sent towards the Fords of Isen for safety.
June 8 - Khamul's army of 7000 takes and occupies the city of Edoras with no resistance from the Rohirrim.
June 8 - 9,100 from Gondor arrive in the Westfold.
June 10 - Ashgaz' arrival in the Shire (Going 60 miles a day). Meeting with Mary; captured by Angmar on fell beast and taken back to Minas Morgul. Was later tormented and destroyed by Angmar (the Witch-King). Peter's unseen hroa (body) was destroyed and his fea (spirit) went to Valinor, where he was judged in the Ring of Doom by the assembled Valar. He was sentenced to wait half an age to reflect upon his deeds in the Halls of Mandos before going to Eru.

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