THE RACES THAT MAKE UP THE ALLIANCEs OF MIDDLE-EARTH

1. THE RACES THAT MAKE UP THE ALLIANCEs OF MIDDLE-EARTH THE 2 ALLIANCES

2. CONTENTS-GOOD ALLIANCE • MAIAR…4 • ELVES…5 • MEN…6 • DWARVES…7 • ENTS/EAGLES…8 • HOBBITS/RIVERFOLK…9 • ARMY OF THE DEAD…10

3. CONTENTS-EVIL ALIANCE • WITCH-KING/NAZGŬL…11 • ORCS/URUK-HAI…12 • BALROGS…13

4. MAIAR THE MIAIR ARE THE CREATIONS THAT WOULD BE SENT BY THE VALAR TO BRING PEACE TO MIDDLE-EARTH AND GUIDE IT’S CREATIONS. THERE ARE LOTS OF MIAIRS AND ARE RULED UNDER THE LORDS OF THE VALAR. UNFORTUNATLY NOT ALL USED THEIR POWER FOR GOOD. MELKOR,ONE OF THE VALARS, SAW DARKNESS IN THE POWER. HE BETRAYED HIS KIND AND NOW PLAYS AS THE BACKBONE TO ALL CHAOS ON MIDDLE-EARTH WITH THE HELP OF THE BALROGS, A CREATION MADE OF THE SHADOW AND FLAME OF UDŬN. EVENTUALLY THE BALROGS WERE THEN DEFEATED BY THE ALLIANCES OF THE ELVES AND SO THE REMAINING BALROGS FLED TO THE MOUNTAINS AND DWELLED IN THEIR CAVES. MELKOR IS NOW KNOWN AS MORGOTH. THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE MAIAR WAS EŎNWE,OR SAURON, WHO JOINED HIM AND BECAME HIS PRINCIPAL LEUITENANT. ONE OF THE MAIAR AULË, THE SMITH, DECIDED TO USE HIS POWER TO CREATE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CREATION. THE DWAVES. CREATED HIS THE REMAINING VALAR LORDS THEN TOLD OTHER MIAIRS TO SET OUT AND DEFEAT SAURON.CURUNĪR (SARUMAN THE WHITE) , OLŌRIN, (GANDALF THE GREY WHO SOON BECOMES THE WHITE). AIWENDIL (RADAGAST THE BROWN) , ALATAR AND PALLANDO(BOTH KNOWN AS THE BLUE WIZARDS).

5. ELVES ELVES ARE CONSIDERED THE WISEST OF RACES, AND LIVE FOR CENTURIES. THEY HAVE KINGDOMS OF THEIR OWN; LÓTHLÓRÉÍN-WHEN EREGION FELL, CELEBRON AND GALADRIEL DECIDED TO CLAIM LORD-SHIP OVER LÓTHLÓRÉÍN. LINDON- RULED BY GIL-GALAD- CONTROLLED CIRDÁN, THE GREY HAVENS EREGION-RULED BY- CELEBORN AND GALADRIEL- NEARBY THE GATE OF MORIA- WHEN SAURON HAD POSSESION OF THE RING, HE TARGETED THE KINGDOM OF EREGION AND IT FELL. THE ELVES FLED TO THE OTHER ELVEN KINGDOMS. MIRKWOOD-A MORE OR LESS FALLEN ELVEN REALM WHERE SAURON SENDS HIS SHADOW AND EVIL. ACROSS TO THE FORTRESS OF DOL GULDUR. RIVENDELL- RULED BY LORD ELROND- ELVAN STRONGHOLD- HIDDEN VALLEY. THEY ARE VERY PEACEFUL, AND TO SYMBOLISE THIS, THEY CONTRUCTED THE RINGS OF POWER. SEVEN WERE GIVEN TO THE DWARVEN RACE, 3 FOR THE WISEST ELVES AND 9, TO THE RACE OF MEN WHO WERE DOOMED TO DIE… . THE RINGS OF POWER WERE MADE BY CELEBROMBOR, LORD OF CRAFTMAN-SHIP, AND ANNATAR. SAURON DISGUISED HIM-SELF AS ANNATAR, AND LEARNED FROM CELEBRIMBOR HOW TO CONSTRUCT POWERFUL OBJECTS AND THE USAGE OF DARK SORCERY. AS THE RINGS OF POWER WERE GIVEN OUT, ANNATAR FLED BACK TO MORDOR AND FORGED ANOTHER RING IN SECRET FOR HIM-SELFTHAT WOULD OVERTHROW THE POWER OF THE OTHER RINGS AND THEY WOULD FALL UNDER HIS SLAVERY.

6. MEN THERE ARE SEVERAL KINGDOMS WHERE THE MEN OF MIDDLE-EARTH OBIDE. THE MAIN KINGDOMS MENTIONED IN TOLKIENS BOOKS AND FILMS ARE; ROHAN; THE KING OF ROHAN IS THEODEN SON OF THANGEL AND IT’S CAPITAL CITY IS EDORAS, OR THE GOLDEN HALL.THEY ALSO HAVE A FORTRESS OF REFUGE, WHERE THEY FLEE TO, WHEN WAR IS UPON THEM.HELMS-DEEP. A FORTRESS CARVED FROM THE ROCK AND STONE OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, GIVING ROHAN AN ENTERANCE TO THE GLITTERING CAVES. GONDOR; THE CAPITAL CITY OF GONDOR IS A FORTRESS MADE OF STONE, MINAS TIRITH, SOUTH FROM THE WHITE MOUNTAINS AND WAS BUILT BY ISILDUR, PREVIOUS RULER OF GONDOR. HE ALSO BUILT MINAS ITHIL WHICH TAKEN BY THE NAZGÛL. THERE MORE KINGDOMS OF MEN. BUT THAT OF WHICH HAVE JOINED WITH THE EVIL ALLIANCE. DALE; MOSTLY KNOWN AS LAKE-TOWN, IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PLACES OF TRADE IN MIDDLE EARTH. IT IS MENTIONED MOSTLY IN THE HOBBIT 2. IT IS ON A LAKE AND IS THE KINGDOM LAID IN FRONT OF THE GREAT DWARVEN KINGDOM, EREBOR. RHÛN; THIS FALLEN REALM APPEARS IN TWO TOWERS, AS EASTERLINGS. ANGMAR; THIS IS THE KINGDOM OF THE WITCH-KING, WHERE HE FELL AND FLED TO MINAS MORGÛL, MORDOR. UMBAR; THE CORSAIRS, PIRATES, THEY AID SAURON BY THE COASTS AND SEAS.

7. DWARVES • THE DWARVES WERE MADE BY A MAIAR THAT USED HIS SKILLS OF CRAFT, TO GOOD. AULË, THE MIAIR, THE SMITH. THE DWARVES WERE A GREAT RACE THAT HAD CLAIMED MANY KINGDOMS, BUT SOON TWO OF THEM WERE CLAIMED BY ANOTHER RACE, MORE SUPIRIOR THAN MEN AND GOBLINS, ORCS OF MORDOR AND THE URUKS OF ISENGARD. THEIR KINGDOMS WERE; • THE MINES OF MORIA- AZOG-BALIN-BALROG • EREBOR- THROR-SMAUG-UNKNOWN? • IRON HILLS- DURIN’S FOLK-GRÓR • BLUE MOUNTAINS- THRAIN-THORIN • MISTY MOUNTAINS- DURIN’S FOLK

8. Eagles + ENTS EAGLES, THEY ARE PART OF THE GOOD ALLIANCE AND ARE KNOWN AS THE GUARDIANS OF MIDDLE-EARTH. THEY ARE KNOWN MOSTLY FOR RESCUING THE TWO YOUNG HOBBITS FROM THE FURY OF THE SLOPES OF MT.DOOM. IN THE FILMS, IT IS GANDALF THAT SUMMONS THEM, WITH A BUTTERFLY. THEY APPEAR IN TWO TOWERS AND THE RETURN OF THE KING, SAVING THE ROHIRRIM FROM THE HELL HAWKS AND NAZGÛL. THE ENTS/HUORNS ARE THE ENCHANTED TREES OF FANGORN FOREST THAT SLEEP, MOVE, AND WHISPER AND TALK. THEY ARE LOCATED ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ISENGARD. THEY APPEAR IN THE TWO TOWERS, THE LAST MARCH OF THE ENTS. AS THEY FIND OUT THAT SARUMAN HAVE BEEN BURING OTHER ENTS TO BURN FOR ISENGARDS INDUSTRAIL REVOLUTION. THEY DESTROY AND CLAIM ISENGARD AS THEIR OWN. SARUMAN WAS LEFT IN HIS FORTRESS TO DIE AFTER LOOSING THE POWER OF THE VALAR.

9. HOBBITS + RIVERFOLK HOBBITS ARE SMALL BEINGS THAT NEVER DO ANYTHING UNEXPECTED… THEY ARE LOCATED IN THE SHIRE, NEAR GUNDABAD AND THE LONELY MOUNTAIN. AFTER THE WAR OF WRATH, THE RACE OF THE HOBBITS WERE WELL RESPECTED IN MIDDLE-EARTH, DUE TO THEIR BRAVERY AND SACRIFICE. RIVERFOLKS FIRST CAME IN APPEARANCE, IS WHEN SMÉGOL AND HIS COUSIN, DÉAGOL GO FISHING IN THE GREAT RIVER, ANDUÍN. IN THE TWO TOWERS FILM. LATER ON IN THE FILM, YOU FIND OUT THE STORY BEHIND SMÉAGOL, HIS SECRETS AND WHAT HE DID FOR THE RING…

10. ARMY OF THE DEAD AT THE TIME MINAS TIRITH WAS BEING RULED BY ISLIDUR, AND HE POSSESED A SPECIAL BLACK STONE THAT CALLED UPON KING OF THE MOUNTAINS (ROHAN) , BALDOR, WHENEVER THEY WERE IN NEED OF AID. IN THE FIRST AGE WHEN SAURON ROSE FROM MORDOR, ATTACKED MINAS TIRITH AND WHEN ISILDUR CALLED UPON BALDOR TO HONOUR THEIR OATH, HE REFUSED, AND SO THE ARMY FLED TO THE MOUNTAINS. ISILDUR CURSED THEM, THAT THEY WILL NOT REST IN THE GRAVE, UNTIL THEIR OATHS WERE HEL FULFILLED. THEY FLED TO THE HILLS OF ERECH, PATHS OF THE DEAD, WHICH THEN BECAME A TERROR TO LIVING MEN. BALDOR NEVER RETURNED TO HIS FATHER,BREGO WHO DIED OF GRIEF A YEAR LATER.

11. WITCH-KING/NAZGÛL THE WITCH-KING WAS THE START OF ONE OF THE DEADLIEST RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH. WHEN THE 9 RINGS OF POWER WERE GIVEN TO THE RACE OF MEN, THEIR HEARTS FELL INTO THE EVIL OF THE RINGS UNDER SAURONS DARK SCORCERY. WHEN THE KINGDOMS OF MEN FELL, THEIR KINGS PASSED INTO A DIMENSION OF SHADOW, BECOMING THE NAZGÛL. AS THE REALM OF ANGMAR WAS FALLING THE WITCH-KING KNEW THAT HIS POWER WAS STILL NOT ENOUGH TO OVERTHROW THE KING AND SO HE WENT TO MORDOR AND BECAME ONE THE SERVANTS OF SAURON. THEY WOULD RIDE ON HORSES AND FLY ON HELL HAWKS, SCREECHING DEATH, SEARCHING FOR THE RING. THE WITCH-KING WAS SLAIN AT THE BATTLE OF PELLENNOR BY MERRY AND EOWYN. HOWEVER HE RISES ONCE AGAIN IN THE FORTH AGE. (THIS IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE FILMS)

12. ORCS/URUK HAI THE ORCS ARE EASY TO PRODUCE WARRIORS THAT ARE MADE OF SAP, DUST AND STONE WITHIN THE ORC FORGES OF MORDOR. THEY ARE THE FIGHTERS THAT MAKE UP THE ARMIES OF THE EVIL ALLIANCE. ORCS ARE LOCATED IN TWO MAJOR PLACES; MINAS MORGÛL AND BARAD-DÛR. THEY ARE PRODUCED ON MASS SCALES, TENS OF THOUSANDS AT A TIME. THE LIEUTENTANT OF MORDORS ARMIES IS GOTHMOG, WHO RESIDES AT MINAS MORGUL. HE APPEARS IN THE RETURN OF THE KING WHERE HE DRAWS OUT THE ARMIES OF MINAS MORGÛL AND MARCHES TO OSIGILIATH. THE URUK HAI, KNOWN AS THE URUKS, FIRST EMERGE WHEN SARUMAN LOOKS INTO HIS PALANTÍR, AND IS TOLD BY SAURON TO MAKE HIM AN ARMY WORTHY TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE MORDOR. THEY ARE MADE OF SAP AND ASH, IN ISENGARD. THEY ALSO TRY AND CREATE ANOTHER TYPE OF URUK CALLED BESERK, THE STRONGEST OF THEM ALL. THERE IS A BESERK IN THE BATTLE OF THE HORNBURG, WHO CARRIES THE SPARK THAT IGNITES THE EXPLOSIVES IN THE CULVERTS.

13. BALROGS BALROGS, THE ANCIENT RACE OF SHADOW AND FIRE. THEIR FLAMES WERE CREATED IN UDÛN, NEXT TO MORDOR, BECAUSE THEY WERE SERVANTS OF SAURON BEFORE THE NAZGÛL. THE BALROGS WERE ORIGINALLY JUST SPIRITS OF THE ISTARI, BUT BEFORE THE COMING OF THE ELVES, MORGOTH CORRUPTED THEM AND SO THEY BECAME EVIL AND MENNACING. WHEN THEY WERE CREATED, SOME OF THEM FLED TO ANGBAND, AND LURKED IN THE PITS. WHEN MORGOTHS FORTRESS IN ANGBAND WERE DESTROYED BY THE VALAR, MOST OF THE BALROGS WERE KILLED. THOSE THAT SURVIVED, WERE SCATTERED IN THE EAST AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. IN THE FILMS, A BALROG APPEARS TO BE FOUND DWELLING IN THE MINES OF MORIA. THE DWARVES, MINED TO DEEP WHEN THEY HAD AWOKEN THE BEAST. THE ONLY BALROG THAT IS KNOWN TO NAME IS CALLED LUNGORTHIN, WHO IS LORD OF THE BALROGS.