History

War of the First Coalition

War of the First Coalition (Q. “Ohta Minyaheren“) was a legendary and poorly understood conflict that allegedly took part at the end of the Second Age, in the land that later become Gondor. It is only mentioned in three extant manuscripts of anonymous authorship, preserved at the monastery of Durthang: Ohta Minyaheren (OM, “War of… read more »

Gondorian Renaissance

The 17th century was a time of great change and upheaval for Gondor. The society, strongly hierarchical and stratified, dominated by a small Dúnedain elite, experienced two major wars (1633–1638, 1653–1666) and the plague (1635–1638), which claimed the lives of half of the kingdom’s population. Particularly, the economic and political aftermath of the plague disrupted… read more »

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