Board Thread:Character Discussion Board/@comment-26210095-20151205163453

The Red Elves were once Teleri, on the great journey. Eventualy, when they were crossing the Misty Mountains, they took a wrong turn, and were lost. They found a extremely large cave, with room for their great numbers. They slept there through the night, but then a terrible thunderstorm began. This awakened the Stone Giants, who fought viciously with one another, and a rock hurled into the mountain, and caused a large landslide which sealed up the cavern with mighty stones. For a year, they lived under the mountain, eating wild mushrooms and animals that lived under the cave, they eked out a miserable existence. Eventually, their leader, Queen Tauramir, in a vision saw a way out of the caverns. She led her people on the path she saw, and eventually they came out in the Extreme north east forodwaith Mountains. It was a harsh existence, but they learned to live off the land. They sent expeditions north, south, east, and especially west, as they wanted to find their kindred. To the East and West, they found only a icy ocean. To the South they found the impassable Ered Ingren, but the trips to the north proved more profitable. They found Mammoths, and other things to hunt and eat, as well as mighty forests, and other wondrous things. They, remembering what Orome told them, about a light in the West, made their home to the West of the continent, and made a mighty city, Barad Helluin. They named the land "Helekwaith", and they called them selves the "Eredain" or the Lone Peoples, as they had no contact with any other cutures. One of those days, Ulmo in his travels throughout the sea found them. Ulmo took pity on them, and taught them the art of shipbuilding, as well as many other things, such as the forging of iron. They made ships, and soon were the greatest masters of ships in Middle Earth. They conducted mighty voyages south, east, and west. They eventually found Beleriand, and their long lost kin- the Sindar. Communication was slow, as by then they had developed their own language, and it had diverged greatly from their Sindarin tounge. The Sindar invited them to live with them, but by then they had grown to love the icy plains of the Helekwaith, and stayed, though they remained in contact with them. They began to mine from the Mountains, though they found little but cold iron and lead. When Morgoth came to Angband, they immidiatly saw him as a threat and declared war on him. They participated in few of the great battles of the South, but fought a guerilla war against Morgoth. After the downfall of Morgoth and the breaking of the coast, Barad Helluin survived, but as a large island. In the Second Age, they had few dealings with Numenor, bur a great change happened in their lands. The Lossoth came from the South, and claimed the lands as their own. There was a great war between the two peoples, and eventualy they came to a truce: The Coastline, save for the Bay of Forochel, would belong to the Lossoth, as well as half of the ice plains. The rest would go to the Eredain. They were cold and distnant to the haughty elves of Lindon, who, because they were of the Noldorin race, thought they were superior. They had great friendship with the Elves of Erigion however, and they received a minor Ring in token of friendship. When Sauron declared himself and burnt Erigion to the ground, the Eredain declared war on the northern front, destroying Saurons power on the coast. In the beginning of the Third Age, however, a change happened. They became more cold and reclusive, and began to grow jealous of the elves of Lindon, eventually declaring war on them for resources and wealth. Although this failed, it began a warrior culture which endured. They became fierce coastal raiders, and they earned the name "The Red Elves" by the others. 