Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25754873-20170827162748

In year 3019 of the Third Age the One Ring was destroyed and the realm of Mordor was abolished, and the forces of the Free Peoples vanquished their foes at the Battle of the Black Gate. After this Aragorn was crowned King of Gondor, and the Scepter of Annúminas was yielded over to him by Elrond. Five years of peace then passed, in which Gondor nursed her wounds and several Haradrim states submitted to Gondor and were thus annexed by it, for the most part out of Harondor. All the while the Enedwaith and Eriador were being cleansed of outlaws and the roads were repaired. But, after this period of peace Umbar began to raid Gondor’s coastline again, though not as frequent or successful as before. Aragorn would not tolerate this, and soon he sent a Red Arrow to Rohan and Eomer answered, and Gondor and Rohan began to muster their strength.

Unlike what was the scenario in the War of the Ring, Gondor could muster her entire army, as could Rohan, after one year of mustering Aragorn deemed the force worthy, thus he began to assail Umbar’s vassals in Harondor, then Harnedor, then the Southron Coasts. Finally, he reached the Gate of Fuinur, and he laid siege to it for 6 months, in which it fell, at heavy cost for Gondor. Swiftly after the fall of the Gate of Fuinur, the Peninsula of Umbar fell, soon the armies marched upon the City of the Corsairs, Umbar. The city withstood siege for 2 years, after the end of two bloody years of siege, Umbar fell. The rest of Umbar soon submitted to Gondor and the rest of Umbar’s vassals swore fealty to Gondor.

After four years of war Gondor emerged stronger, and soon it turned its mind to peace once again, and Aragorn began the recolonisation of Arnor. Tharbad was the first to rebuilt because of it’s strategic location, and to allow ease of naval travel. Soon, the rebuilding and recolonisation of Arthedain commenced. Aragorn soon made his capital at Annúminas upon its reconstruction. He then made the Shire a free land under the protection of the Scepter of the North and gave Westmarch to the hobbits as a gift.

Note, I based this off the new Harad map and the fact that presumably when Tolkien said “south to the River Harnen and thence along the coast to the peninsula and haven of Umbar” haven was a typo, he meant havens.  