Fornost

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Um, so, "In Third Age 1601, Marcho and Blanco Fallowhide," who were brothers, "uh, with permission of the High King at Fornost, crossed the Branduin with a great following of hobbits and settled what is now known as the Shire." Uh, so let's just, again, look at where Fornost is.

So Fornost being right here, uh, in the center region of Arnor here, maybe south center, south central Arnor.

Um, you know, there's a lot more to be said about Arnor.

It's a very interesting sort of, uh, history there.

Um, so, uh, you know, we can see that the, the hobbits had, uh, you know, somewhat of a close proximity to the capital of Arnor at this time.

Uh, so they come over the Branduin River, Bree being here, right, and then the Branduin, the Brandywine, being here.

So they come over into this region and, um, they c- they did it with the permission of the King of Fornost, and they came with a lot of other hobbits, and they settled what is now known as the Shire.

Uh, Belegost meaning great fortress from beleg, strong, ost, fortress.

Same as Osgiliath and Fornost, which we've covered to death.

Don't worry about it.

Nogrod, uh, means hollow bold, possibly, or the hollow dwelling, and they make first contact with the Sindar.

So, and then Círdan, he sees this and he summons everybody who he can get.

And together, these men of Gondor and the elves of Lindon march on the Witch-King of Angmar, who is said to be dwelling in Fornost.

There is a big old battle.

It's going great.

Yes.

That was the king of Fornost.

We'll get to that.

But yeah, so when Bill was walking around, and even when Frodo was walking around, you've got the old watchtower of Amon Sul, the Barrow Downs.

They're defeated.

And the Tower of Amon Sul is sacked and burned and razed to the ground.

But before the tower was entirely lost, the Palantir was saved and carried back in retreat to Fornost.

Now, if you'll remember Fornost.

So then we have the other flavor of Rivendell.

Oh, there's two others, but we battle Fornost.

So we have Alex Rebele taking this, which I believe was his favorite lists listed on his player card for this being cut.

And unsurprisingly, he has Glorfindel.

Ooh, can write that in.

I think they were just all at the Battle of Greenfield.

He wanted them to help at Fornost, but they were too busy.

Yep.

He keeps them on the borders of a lot of danger.

Like if you've ever looked at the map of Middle Earth, Fornost is like right there.

They're on the border from really dangerous stuff.

But he keeps them safe just by keeping them like quiet and not very involved in the

And the, what, what will ultimately put doom into mountain doom.

Um, or if it's truly just like this is just this piece of innocence needs to be preserved in which it needs to grow in some aspects and every single one of us can take part of that

I think what fascinates me about the Shire is it is this like idyllic bucolic land surrounded by unimaginable danger like you have the fallen kingdom of Fornos to like the almost immediate north We see in the Lord of the Rings, just to the east, is all the barrows for the barrow-whites and all that, when the two are probably related to the Battle of Fornost.

In the west, you have a tower holding a palantir that everybody just kind of forgot about.

You did go into Fangorn at one point.

Well, I went into Fangorn, I went into Fornost.

And then, Fornost was my first game, Fangorn was my second game.

My third game was against Men of the West.

So that wasn't much better.

Um, didn't find anything so we went back and then somehow we we just kind of worked our way up slowly to angmar and we knew that something was forged there and we get there we meet helvarn who is a specter at this point a ghost who created the blade of angmar which is the secret of angmar and it's a blade that the And my father's looking for it, but we don't know necessarily why.

We eventually go to Fornost, which is a more or less kind of...

Sorry if you hear my washer going.

I should have shut the door.