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Tol Malbor
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Tol Malbor overview and details (MERP)
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Location of Tol Malbor
(upper center, marked #6) (MERP) | |
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Type
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Manor and Estate (Ruin)
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Once there had been on the northwestern Dagorlad a fair estate called Perth Mellin (S. "Golden Fields"). The marshes gradually crept up to the property and started to swallow the buildings. In vain its lord and master built dikes to hold back the waters, but the forces of nature and the Undead were too much for the estate and its people; the master's eldest son was lured into the waters one night as he tended a dike. He was never seen again. Heartbroken, the lord gathered up the remains of his family and retainers and went back to Imloth Melui in Gondor. The handsome manor house with its carefully tended gardens lay abandoned…. But Perth Mellin gained a new name, Tol Malbor (S. "Isle [of the] Golden Fist"), and a new master, a bandit, who loved the place even as much as its old master did. Even though the walls were disintegrating and one of the towers stood entirely surrounded by the teeming waters of the marsh, he loved it. His men had planted Daynet and Grabworts and snares where they would surprise unwanted visitors, and the vaults of the old estate provided plenty of room for his ample collection of stolen treasure. The proud towers no longer stood above carefully tended flowers and fruit-trees: now they loomed in the mists above groves of poisonous Pangwood and rows of pit-traps. Perth Mellin was once more just as "fair" as the land around it.
Characters[]
- Men: Angbor Bassan Borhan Cambrêg Derulin Dintur Galdor Gorlim Gozef Grasty Konireda Hathol Helluin Heiwstain Hirgon Huor Ingold Kadida Liufwini Liufo Magor Radhruin Sigifast Sirith Thunrastainila Virin Zorab
Notes[]
- Original forms in MERP:
- Parth Mallin → Perth Mellin (correct Sindarin form).
References[]
- MERP #8020: Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes