4. METODOLOGÍA DE MODELADO Y MALLADO
4.1. Estrategia de modelado
The Maiar pass into Endor to do their masters' bidding. The Maia Quelbaras of Yavanna's folk lingers by the northeastern shores of the wide and unmarred Inland Sea to tend the newly emerging Olvar there, and to watch for the future time when the Children of Iluvatar should wake.
The Eldar awake in Cuivienen and after Orome appears to them in council, many kindreds choose to follow the Vala and pass into the utter-west. Their voyage takes them through the deep forests of northern Rhûn. The second sundering. The way west is long and filled with fear and wonder. Folwe's people tarry and falter along the way pausing too long by the shores of a great Inland Sea. Left behind, the kindred settle the sweeping forest and are discovered by Quelbaras therein.
32 HISTORY:THE TALE OF YEARS They take the name of Uialrim.
ca. 150 –– The Lintadorin kindreds of man arrive in Rhûn.
Various Northmen tribes settle the lands surrounding the Sea.
ca. 250 –– Bavor's folk, weary of conflict with the denizens of the frozen wastes head south leaving the utter north to King Thelor's people. The mighty Khazad pass through Rhûn leaving a small group of folk to found a mining colony in the Uldona Spine.
ca. 400-450 –– A great wave of Men out of the east pass through Gathod. Many of their folk settle the southern and western shores of the Inland Sea. They call themselves the Donath.
ca. 500 –– Two Donath tribes, the Broendon and Rhidon settle in the region later known as Folyavuld.
ca. 550 –– Cataclysmic forces shake Rhûn as the Valar make war on Morgoth. The great forests retreat and Varda's Mirror is marred. Elven settlers of the coast move into the deeps of the Agasha Dag.
The Second Age
ca. 1 –– Relin, son of Runin, constructs a new home at Falek-dim.
12 –– The Baradhrim, ancient Mannish servants of Morgoth, attack the Dwarves and Northmen of Rhovanion. They are defeated and eventually settle the sparsely inhabited lands north and east of the Agasha Dag.
ca. 220 –– The Talathrim, a great collection of Mannish cultures out of the far east, reach the Talathrant.
262 –– Led by a demonic spirit, the Variags and many allied cultures attack and defeat the Nardhrim peoples of the central Talathrant.
ca. 400 –– The Ulgath split into northern and southern branches over the issue of alliance with the warlike Variags.
The southern Ulgath occupy the fertile lands on either side of the Talathrant, while the northern Ulgath migrate into the lands west of the river, seeking a land for themselves.
521 –– The Uruk-marzguram migrate from the Ash Mountains to the Uldona Spine where they lay siege to Relin's kingdom at Falek-dim.
522 –– Relin is forced to abandon Falek-dim.
596 –– The Variag domain in the Talathrant collapses in the face of determined attacks by their Ioriag cousins, and the Variags are pushed west. The southern Ulgath are able to retain much of their land north of the former Variag holdings.
680 –– Variag tribes first settle in the Gap of Khand.
ca. 730 –– War grips much of the Talathrant vale as the southern Ulgath defend their holdings against attacking Ioriags of the Relmether region. Many southern Ulgath tribes migrate north into the Kykurian Kyn. Tribes of the northern Ulgath are forced into the Empty Plains, where they are dominated by the Baradhrim chiefdoms.
800-1000 –– Reinvigorated by a return to the practice of
slave-holding, Baradhrim culture rediscovers its dark roots.
The worship of Morgoth again becomes popular as do ancient traditions of blood sacrifice.
ca. 1000 –– Sauron chooses Mordor as the site of his return to power in Middle-earth. He begins the construction of the Barad-dur.
ca. 1100 –– The Ioriag tribes of the Talathrant succeed in forcing the southern Ulgath out of the river valley and far into the Empty Plains and Kykurian Kyn. Their knowledge of horsecraft allows them to largely resist the Baradhrim.
1148 –– Northern Ulgath refugee clans reach the Agach vale.
There some clans settle and are able to befriend the Northmen of the region.
1149 –– A group of Avari fleeing the awakening of the Balrog Muar in the east are accepted by the Uialrim and add their number to the Elven population of Rhûn. However, friction between the leaders causes a sundering of friendship and the Eastern Elves pass south of the Kug to dwell in the empty forest there. The Uialrim close their borders to other elves.
1250-1300 –– Having adopted to life by the Sea, the Ulgath of the Agach expand their territory west, eventually coming to the mouth of the Fola Salenin. Calling themselves the Gargath, these clans settle lands along the lower Fola Salenin vale and have frequent contact with the Rhidon Donath.
ca. 1600 –– Sauron secretly forges the One Ring. The Barad-dur is completed.
1602-1675 –– Sauron gains control of the Variags of Khand through the establishment of a cult of dark priestesses.
1641 –– The people of Muhlmek the Strong migrate along the eastern slopes of the Ered Harmal and into Gathod. They make quick alliances with refugee Ioriags from the Talathrant and form a new confederacy of tribes called the Odhriags.
1688-90 –– Sauron appears several times to the Mannish cultures of southern and eastern Rhûn as a powerful deity called the "Black Master." He founds a cult devoted to the worship of himself, and establishes Lokuthor, first of the Dispossessed, as his high priest.
1690 –– Seeking new lands to cultivate, three Entwives bring agriculture to northwestern Rhûn.
1692 –– Sauron's servants discover the Baradhrim and their dark religion. They begin to stir the Easterlings against their ancient enemies, the Northmen to their west.
1695 –– The Dark Lord's servants succeed in stirring the Baradhrim against the Northmen. Two powerful Baradhrim tribal confederacies drive the Northmen across Rhovanion to eaves of Greenwood the Great. The Szreldor settle the lands north of the Fola Salenin. The fishing Northmen and Ulgath of the Agach are driven into the forest where they found the settlement of Kugavod. Many are set upon by the elves when straying too far from the coast and are slain.
1700 –– Sauron is defeated by a Numenorean fleet sent to Lindon.
1887-90 –– Jealous of the economic success of the cultures
HISTORY:THE TALE OF YEARS 33 of Folyavuld, Korlana Szrel campaigns south of the Fola
Salenin, subjecting many Donath and Gargath clans to slavery. The Szreldor establish a powerful kingdom in the Folyavulda lowlands that dominates eastern Rhovanion and northern Rhûn. The Entwives flee the violence of the warring tribes and pass east under the eaves of Agasha Dag. They are not heard of again by Man.
2000 –– Uvatha Achef becomes the first king to unite all the tribes of the Variags.
2002 –– Uvatha accepts a Ring of Power from Sauron and becomes the ninth Ringwraith.
2004 –– At his halls in the Grey Mountains, Thelor VII accepts one of the Seven Rings from Sauron.
2176 –– Oraishapek of Dir goes to Mordor and receives a Ring of Binding.
2204 –– Korlana IV, king of the Szreldor accepts Oraishapek as Sauron's embassy to Szrel-Arkasa.
2236 –– Oraishapek dies and becomes one of the undead Dispossessed. His ring is passed to a Szreldorn successor.
2251-53 –– Oropher founds the Woodland Realm in Greenwood the Great. A group of Silvan folk under Lanthir, their leader, reject Oropher's hegemony and migrate from Greenwood to the Agasha Dag. They try to settle deep within the forest but the Uialrim reject the outsiders and allow them to settle only in the narrow band of forest between the Uialrim realm and the expanding population of Kugavod.
Lanthir's Elves take over the border-watch.
2258 –– The Ringwraith Hoarmurath gives a Ring of Binding to one of his most trusted mortal servants, Nemol of Dir.
2603 –– Lokor Szrel, king of the Szreldor, is passed Oraishapek's ring, cementing Mordor's control over the Szreldorn kingdom.
2772 –– Lokor Szrel begins the construction of the Dradorny-Arnas.
2797-2804 –– Thelor's folk migrate from the Grey Mountains to the Uldona Spine, reclaiming the halls of Falek-dim from the Orcs.
2814 –– The sea-drake Kraszapol is raised from the depths of the Sea by Lokor Szrel's sorcery.
3261 –– Ar-Pharazon the Golden lands a large Numenorean fleet at Umbar. Sauron is unable to match their strength and is forced to become Ar-Pharazon's captive.
3319 –– The Downfall of Numenor. Elendil and his sons escape.
3430 –– The Great Muster is called. Warriors from across Rhûn flock to Sauron's banner.
3433 –– Lokuthor, one of Sauron's Dispossessed servants, refuses to submit to Sauron's authority. Sauron destroys him, effectively dissolving his own influence in Southern Rhûn.
An Odhriag overlord, Khorgul Hotun, unites the tribes and refuses to honor Sauron's call to arms.
3434 –– The Battle of Dagorlad. Sauron's armies are
decisively defeated by the Last Alliance. Many of Sauron's northern Ulgath servants desert well before the battle is decided. Elendil sends large companies of Eriadorian Northmen into southern Rhovanion to guard against the return of the deserters. Droza Kadar leads a slave rebellion in Folyavuld.
3435 –– Szrel-Arkasa falls. Yorga Hos leads a confederation of Sagath tribes against Ilanin. The Ibar Logath matriarch establishes the town of Sadvar.
3441 –– The Barad-dur is broken. Sauron is overthrown and the Ringwraith pass into the shadows.
The Third Age
1 –– The Northman watch at Algiwidaus is abandoned.
Bands of these Northmen migrate to the sheltered highlands of the Uldona Spine, where they become known as the Bergothiuda.
11-21 –– The Ibnotithiuda found Burh Armenrik. They make contact and begin to trade with the Donath, the Odhriags, and the Dwarves of Uldona Spine.
50 –– Contact between the Logath and Kugath is made and trade commences between these two cultures.
58-62 –– The release of a terrible blight forces Thelor XIV to abandon his mines, causing civil unrest among his subjects.
Much of the king's family succumbs to the pestilence, and most of the Dwarves flee their home in the Uldona Spine.
150 –– Logath expansion reaches the Redwater and contact is made with Rhovanic Northmen tribes.
472 –– Several Urgath tribes migrate across the Surubeki and settle in the Mistrand region.
480 –– A terrible disease strikes the Urgath herds of southeastern Rhûn. Large numbers of Urgath migrate through Gathod and onto the eastern and central Talath Harroch.
485-488 –– Urgath/Sagath wars. The Urgath succeed in displacing large numbers of Sagath onto the Dagorlad.
492 –– Folyavuld retakes Ilanin from the Hos confederacy.
493 –– The Sagath begin raiding Ithilien provoking King Tarostar to mobilize a sizable army to deal with the nomads.
497 –– The construction of the tower at Or-Sarn completed.
498-500 –– Tarostar's army drives the disunified Sagath north into the Eastern Bight. Tarostar's army is never confronted in numbers and Tarostar has trouble bringing the Sagath bands to battle. Tarostar takes the name 'Romendacil' and withdraws his army back to Gondor.
503 –– Folyavulda explorers reach Lindal and make contact with the Northmen of Lake-town.
500-540 –– Northman culture expands onto the plains. The Ehwathrumi culture develops and competes with the Sagath for limited plains resources. The Sagath warlord Caros unites the Sagath in opposition to the Northmen and Gondor. Caros seeks an alliance with the Urgath of the Eastern Talath Harroch.
34 HISTORY:THE TALE OF YEARS 540 –– The joint forces of Caros and the Urgath make war on
Ithilien and Dagorlad. Romendacil is slain in battle.
541 –– Tarostar's heir, Turambar, launches a determined campaign against the Easterling alliance. The King makes an alliance with the Northman princes of the Ehwathrumi. The Easterling alliance dissolves. The remnants of the Urgath tribes are driven with great loss across the Talath Harroch and back into Southern Rhûn. Turambar grants much of Rhovanion and the Talath Harroch to his Northman prince allies.
546 –– The Ehwathrumi make contact with the western border of Folyavuld. Folyavulda trade goods are exchanged through Ehwathrumi lands and begin to reach Gondor.
550-650 –– Folyavulda age of exploration on the Inland Sea.
Many of the first voyages result in tragedy as high seas capsize the shallow draft vessels of Folyavuld.
562 –– The first successful trade expedition to find the mouth of the Kug river and trade with Kugavod by sea.
568 –– The Edru expedition is blown off course, and eventually finds its way to Mistrand.
ca. 570 –– Dor Rhûnen trades heavily with the Ehwathrumi.
Tales of the exotic land of "Dorwinion" and the Inland Sea reach Gondor.
572 –– Lest is established by the Ibnotithiuda.
575 –– Contact is made between Burh Armenrik and Folyavuld.
ca. 585 –– Initial construction projects of the Men Rhûnen.
Some Ehwathrumi make a living protecting trade caravans from the depredations of Sagath tribes. Founding of Thorondir.
ca. 596 –– Gondorian merchants take up residence in Burh Armenrik.
600 –– Two members of the doomed Edru expedition reach Folyavuld and tell their tale. A strong effort to reach the ports of Mistrand and Dilgul ensues.
652 –– A Rhidon explorer finds the hidden natural haven of Scarakikot and establishes a small town there. The town and haven become known popularly among Folyavulda sailors as
"Scari."
ca. 700 –– The markets of Lest, Dilgul and Mistrand are opened to sea-going Folyavulda merchants.
784 –– The Dunadan presence in Burh Armenrik increases.
The Governor of Dor Rhûnen sends a small company to oversee the security of the town.
790 –– Following an Asdriag raid in which most of the town took fire, the Gondorian detachment in Burh Armenrik oversees the building of the Barad Ithil.
999 –– Esgaroth established on the Long Lake.
1000 –– Sauron stirs again in Middle-earth.
1050 –– Uvatha returns to Khand.
1100 –– Uvatha crowns himself King of Khand. He begins
the long process of securing the borders of Mordor in preparation for his master's return to the Black Land.
ca. 1110 –– Fleeing Uvatha's Variag hordes, Asdriags migrate into the lands of southern and southeastern Rhûn.
1208-22 –– The Northman Clan Wars.
1228 –– The Hos Sagath clan invades and occupies Ilanin and the surrounding valley.
1229 –– Vidugavia and Hos fight over hegemony in northern Rhovanion.
1231-34 –– Folyavuld sides with Vidugavia and together they drive Hos back into the north..
1235-46 –– Vidugavia and the Eriadorian clans of the Talath Harroch fight for control of all the Northmen clans of Rhovanion.
1240 –– Minalcar becomes Regent of Gondor and sends spies into Rhovanion.
1247 –– Minalcar makes an alliance with Vidugavia. Gondor and the Northmen make war on the Easterlings of the Talath Harroch. The Easterlings are defeated and the region again becomes stable.
1248 –– Minalcar and Vidugavia campaign across Gathod in an attempt to permanently rid the area of nomads. The Easterlings of Gathod are indiscriminately persecuted by the crusading army, fostering their later hatred of Gondor and the west. Uvatha pulls back his armies to avoid a western discovery of his return. The town of Elgaer is established by Folyavulda merchants as a supply outpost for the western army.
1250 –– Minalcar officially recognizes Vidugavia's kingship and sends his son Valacar as ambassador to the new realm.
Anduin is fortified and construction of the Argonath is begun.
1265 –– Oraishapek the Dispossessed is reborn as Uvatha reclaims Oraishapek's Ring from the tomb of the Szrel King in the Ash Mountains.
1272 –– The Witch-king enters Angmar.
1274 –– Uvatha finds a new host for Nemol's Ring, and helps this new servant gain influence among the peoples of Gathod.
Posing as various deities to the Urgath, Brygath and Odhriag tribes, he begins to exacerbate their hatred of the west.
1280 –– The Variags of Khand launch offensives into Gathod that sack Mistrand and further unify Nemol's followers.
1300-1385 –– Agents of the Witch-king work to popularize migration to Angmar among the Logath and Sagath of northern Rhûn.
1327 –– A group of Orcs are sent from Dol Guldur to the Uldona Spine to take control of the Orc tribes there.
1314 –– Nemol appears before Shivalu Sulv in Mistrand, demanding his obedience.
1331 –– Nemol stirs the Brygath against the Folyavulda merchants of Elgaer. The outpost is completely destroyed in a Brygath raid.
HISTORY:THE TALE OF YEARS 35 1384 –– The Witch-king strikes a deal with the Huz clan that
gives them control over the migration road north of the Iron Hills.
ca. 1400 –– Nemol's influence in Mistrand grows as Variag power wanes in Gathod.
1418 –– End of Achimov's line in Mistrand.
1432 –– Eldacar assumes the throne of Gondor, plunging the kingdom into civil war.
1437 –– Eldacar is exiled to Rhovanion.
1447 –– Eldacar returns to claim his throne with the help of his Northman kinsmen.
1538 –– Folyavulda merchants build a fort on the ruins of Elgaer in an attempt to re-establish the eastern trade routes that had once made them wealthy. The new outpost is renamed Kelepar.
ca. 1600 –– Piracy on the Inland Sea hits an all time high as the merchants of both Folyavuld and Burh Armenrik sponsor privateers against one another's ships. Lest and Scari become rival ports, each harboring large privateer populations.
1500-1600 –– The Dragons begin to stir in the Grey Mountains.
1620 –– The merchants of Kelepar make inroads with the Urgath of the sea's eastern coast in an attempt to establish trade routes with the Talathrant vale that circumvent Mistrand.
1629 –– The rivalry between Folyavuld and Mistrand manifests itself as a division between the Urgath and Brygath tribes of the Sea's southeast coast. Warfare erupts among the nomads of Gathod.
1633 –– Despite Folyavuld's naval superiority, several key losses among the Urgathic allies of Folyavuld imperil the outpost at Kelepar.
1634-36 –– The Great Plague strikes eastern Rhûn with devastating results. Kelepar is abandoned.
1640 –– The Sagath Tros clan invades the Ilanin region and seizes the ferry there. Tros demands a toll from the peoples of Gathod who wish to join the Witch-king's armies.
c. 1750 –– A new confederacy rises among the nomads of southern and eastern Rhûn. The religious state that forms is centered on Mistrand, and calls itself the Igath confederation.
1854 –– Uvatha returns to Khand after a long absence and launches attacks against his neighbors with renewed vigor.
The Igath under Avas I and with the councils of Nemol decide to migrate into the richer lands of Rhovanion rather than fight the more powerful Variags.
1855 –– Oraishapek stirs the Logath and Sagath into joining the Wainrider Confederation in their war against Gondor and the Northmen.
1856 –– The Battle of the Plains. King Narmacil II is killed in the battle and Dor Rhûnen is abandoned.
1856-1899 –– The Wainrider Kingdom dominates all of
Rhûn and Rhovanion. The Ehwathrumi are forced to migrate into the Anduin Vale. The Northmen of Rhovanion are driven into Mirkwood and Lake-town is occupied by Easterlings. Folyavuld is occupied and resistance to the Wainrider regime is confined to the highlands, where it is persecuted by Oraishapek's Orc servants.
1899 –– Rebellion against the Wainriders sparks in several places throughout Rhovanion simultaneously. At the same time, King Calimehtar and the Ehwathrumi confront the Wainriders at Dagorlad. The Wainriders are defeated and retreat into the eastern Talath Harroch, but the Ehwathrumi are unable to return to their former ranges.
1940 –– The Wainrider Confederacy again rises to power.
Avas III, high king of the Wainriders makes an alliance with
Avas III, high king of the Wainriders makes an alliance with