Wassail, traveler, and welcome to The Gable Grey -- a place of retreat, of renewal, and of resistance: a tree-shaded refuge in Dark Times. Now pass the threshold, and rest from journeys! For a cold wind is blowing; and here, if you wish, you may hear tidings of the world without...

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

New MERP Links Added


Getting back to the more pleasurable side of things -- namely, anything to do with Fantasy, Middle-earth, role-playing, and combinations thereof -- I recently discovered a Finnish wiki-type page that contains source material for several Middle-earth realms.  Some of it is useful, some not.  Fun reading nonetheless, and it's always a pleasure to look at Finnish words.  I can well appreciate Tolkien's love of Finnish, even if I do not understand the language itself -- much the same way I feel when I read Quenya.  Links to parts of Lindefirion are found beneath the "MERP Resources" header.  (Richard:  The "Khand" section is for you; the early to mid-Third Age Variag alliances with Gondor are especially noteworthy.)

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Whiles carried o'er the iron road,
We hurry by some fair abode;
The garden bright amidst the hay,
The yellow wain upon the way,
The dining men, the wind that sweeps
Light locks from off the sun-sweet heaps --
The gable grey, the hoary roof,
Here now -- and now so far aloof.
How sorely then we long to stay
And midst its sweetness wear the day,
And 'neath its changing shadows sit,
And feel ourselves a part of it.
Such rest, such stay, I strove to win
With these same leaves that lie herein.

-- William Morris, from
"The Roots of the Mountains"