User:Average/Second Age

The second age was an idyllic time of hobbits and friendly wizards -- not anything like the dark times of the First Age. The dragons had been calmed and mostly rested in the mountains. It was just at that interval between the First and the Second Age that the Ring was forged and the elves appeared.

The Ring symbolized a complete world, of power for the many rather than the one. It is called the One Ring because no one hardly knows it's purpose, yet they know it is the first ring ever made. Nay, before then, there were swords, , spoons, and even hatchets, but rings? What would be the purpose of a ring in a bloody age of war and lovelessness? No one could figure it out? Can you?

The elves sprang from the forests as if they'd been hidden in a dream, a different plane, and a fog had cleared. The elves themselves were suspicious enough after the aftermath of the First Age that they put up barriers for any humans that should wander few or many in. They knew not what had happened but thier bones had been forged from it and it made them shake a little with fear -- for no elf could withstand that kind of bloodbath.

The hills turned green with the passing of the First Age and the rise of idyll. The trees grew and the birds sang. Who ever saw a bird in the First Age but a carrion bird or black raven giving warning? Oh, you don't know.

Eventually other wizards would appear to challenge the survivor of the last age who had, in essence, all the power of magic at his command.

Hobbits and wizards made adventures, fantastic beasts, and faeries, but they never found the wizard to protect them, and mostly slept in the trees. Nobody knew.

To see the colorful birds was a delight of the gods that no one had imagined and the people, the hobbits, thought they were blessed. But it too, would become too tranquil, too geriatric.

So the Dark Knights came, the Nazgul, and they looked for the Ring. They sought for it so that they could create the Third Age -- the return of the kings, where they would get to rule. Eventually, they did.

Isn't that who rules the realms now?