This week in the Society...

A messenger from Lorien has come to Baltus Broadbelt, bearing a letter from the Elf-witch, Galadriel.

The Society has been tasked with locating a precious jewel, once belonging to the Elven King Gil-Galad, and Baltus tirelessly seeks for clues to it's where-a-bouts at the libraries of Duillond and Celondim.

Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
Of him the harpers sadly sing:
the last whose realm was fair and free
between the Mountains and the Sea.

His sword was long, his lance was keen,
his shining helm afar was seen;
the countless stars of heaven's field
were mirrored in his silver shield.

But long ago he rode away,
and where he dwelleth none can say;
for into darkness fell his star
in Mordor where shadows are.

In Mordor where the shadows are.

In the year 1019 of the Third Age, the Fallohides of Dorwinion made their way into the Great Mirkwood on their journey to the west.

Not long after entering the forest, a group of twenty was separated from the main party, and became lost within the great depths of Mirkwood.

After wandering for several days, the group stumbled upon a sparkling hollow in the darkest depths of the forest.

In the hollow there was a great pond, in the middle of which grew a large magic tree, and in the tree there lived an Elf-witch by the name of Sabren, who gifted to the twenty Fallohides a great gift, which to this day still remains a secret.

No one knows how long the Fallohides stayed in the hollow, but four years later they re-appeared in the Kingdom of Arnor in the company of a strange native of Mirkwood.

Once reunited with their people, the group of twenty, led by Dak Oldbuck, formed a secret society dedicated to protect the great gift given to them by the Elf-witch, which over the years became known as the Witch Hollow Society.

At most having over 500 hundred members all over the known world, and at least only a few stout-hearted individuals in the Shire, the Witch Hollow Society has lasted for all most two-thousand years, and survived the fall of kingdoms and the corruption of men.

Recently, at the fifteenth council of Crickhollow, newly elected Grand Master Baltus Broadbelt ruled that the Society would henceforth be taking a larger role in the affairs of Middle-Earth on the advisory of the River-man Atharan.



Several enraged members were eliminated from the Society and an extensive campaign was launched by Broadbelt's administration, which for the first time in over a thousand years take the Society over the Brandywine Bridge and out into the world.