War of the Ring - Ben vs Carlos

Becoming increasingly frustrated with the Humans and Dwarves and their indecisiveness in taking action, the Elves of Middle Earth take action into their own hands and preemptively declare war on the Shadow Forces. Even as the orcs were being indoctrinated into the ways of peaceful meditation and other spiritual techniques that would have eventually reunited them with their Elvin brethren, Rivendell ordered its armies to march on a defenseless Moria. And deep within his lonely cave...Balrog wept.

Meanwhile, the Nazgul of Sauron (did I mention that Nazgul is a Mordor phrase meaning “We sacrifice our lives so that those who hate us will know peace”?) desperately searched for the misguided Hobbits who had stolen the One Ring. Deeply concerned that the benevolent power of the ring would be misunderstood and misused, the Nazgul searched for them. Luckily, as then Hobbits first left Rivendell, the influence of the Nazgul hit them hard; convicting their conscience that they should return the ring to its rightful owner and help all Middle Earth see a new ear of peace and fellowship amongst all races and people…but this was not to be.

Although, the Nazgul called out to the impressionable Hobbits, their companions whispered dark and untrue secrets into their ears and urged them away from those who sought to help them. They were led by the one called…Ben.

As the Hobbits fled, the Elves mercilessly sacked Moria. Unholy celebrations of victory erupted in the cities and settlements of the so-called “Free Peoples” as this no doubt fed their lust for more blood and conquests. Alas, Sauron had no choice but to call his people and their allies to war and to march west to protect the just people of Isengard from suffering a similar fate as Moria. In an unprecedented mobilization of men, beasts, and armaments, the new hoard march westward. It was imperative that the isolated peoples of Isengard be liberated.

Standing firmly between the hoard and Isengard were the stubborn peoples of Gondore and Rohan. They made it clear that Isengard and its new leader Saruman were to be sacrificed in the name of some new and horrible new order of terrible tree-people - Obviously the result of a hideous genetic experiment of an insane Dr. Ben. Isengard would never see the liberation of the peoples from the east.

As Isengard was mercilessly crushed, the shadow armies overran most of Gondor. Minas Tirith saw a huge siege, but with the aid of magic, superb siege engineering, and magnificent leadership, it was taken. Westward the hoard marched to capture the last stronghold of Gondor – Victory seemed in easy grasp. However a pesky and embittered king (I think he called himself Aragorn, or something like that) managed to sneak into the besieged Dol Amroth, just as a peace deal was about to be concluded between the combatants there.

But to no avail. Ben somehow managed a military victory over the shadow forces. With the loss of two strongholds, the valiant orcs and peoples united under the benevolent eye or Sauron lost their will to liberate and returned home. As his great and all seeing eye shed it’s last great tear, Sauron vanished into the void…

This is an awesome game. Ben was a great host and I look forward to another game.