[Elora]

Interesting points.

Here's my 2 cents on them.

13 to 16 weeks sounds good to me. I do wonder what happens if the RP seems unlikely to conclude by that time. Are we able to extend it?

I agree about the Hobbits. I would think that any Hobbits would most likely be Bree-folk, or folk from the surrounding Chetwood. However, perhaps a more adventurous Took may venture forth (in the spirit of Bilbo, Frodo and Pippin). Even a Brandybuck.

Perhaps they're adventuring to Bree when they learn of the Master of Buckland's call for a search party. Just an idea.


As for humans, I believe that most human Bree folk would be disinclined to venture too far afield after the war. Mostly they're farmers, tradesfolk and rural business people. So it seems likely that humans that join the search party will be Dunedain Rangers or other like minded, non sedentary folk. I tend to view Bree humans in the ilk of Butterbur and co - no predisposed to venturing into the wilds.

I also think that is some possible scope for ruffians. However, we want to keep the identity and strategy of the "baddies" somewhat covert, so it comes as a surprise to the adventurers. So we'd need to sort out how someone could write a ruffian character. Having said that, with p.ms and other secret communications (devious rubbing of hands), that's not impossible at all.

The matter of Elves and Uien is a fairly straightforward one. The only elves that would know Uien would be any who left Lothlorien and lingered at Imladris. Uien set out with the very last party to leave Lothlorien. She never gained Imladris, being lost on the Pass of Caradhras.

I've been toying with kindred, whom Uien believes either dead or long gone to Valinor, remaining in Imladris in the hopes of finding some trace of her. Perhaps her brother. However, that is not really necessary to the RP and would be a side story.

So if an Elf character came from Lothlorien, they likely would know of Uien. Perhaps they even travelled in the same party as Uien's family had. They may or may not be anything more than an acquaintance. If an Elf came from Imladris, they would not necessarily know Uien.

I'm happy to work on this with anyone who would like to play a Elf character so we achieve nicely integrated character fits with each other.

Dwarves, I believe, could be venturing to Bree in the name of trade - as in gold! They'd be keen to re-establish trade with the outside world, particularly as it would be in a period of re-building. Dwarvish skills and craft with stone would be in tall order about now.

That would be the only thing I could think of that would entice a Dwarf from his mountain halls - gold... profit.

Bree is a mannish town... stone houses and walls perhaps damaged in the melee in the Shire during the War of the Ring... population building again, more houses needed... a new alliance between Elessar and Gimli's folk may induce Dwarvish stone masons to venture into the wider world to apply their skills and make their fortunes.


As I said, these are all just my thoughts on the matter.

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