Fog on the Barrow-Downs

September 28, 3018 The hobbit find themselves in the house of Tom Bombadil. Taking their leave of him, they traverse the Barrow-downs, but soon a pale chill mist falls, and the hobbits lose their way. Will the hobbits learn of their danger before they are found by the barrow-wights who wish to slay them?

Layout

The map is of the battle field looking north.
Forces
The good side is made up of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, each carrying a sturdy blade, and Tom Bombadil, unarmed.
The evil side is made up of 4 barrow-wights, each with heavy armor and carrying a blade of great age and exceptional craftmanship.
Deployment
The hobbits are placed across the center of the battlefield. Tom Bombadil enters from the western edge later.
The barrow-wights are deployed each in contact with one of the barrows.
Objectives
The evil player wins if two hobbits are slain or Frodo is slain. The good side wins if three hobbits escape the east edge of the battlefield.

The hobbits blundered about in the fog, trying to find the way out of the Barrow Downs. Frodo went in the entirely wrong direction, while purely by luck the others went the right way. The wights soon jumped into action, attacking Frodo and Sam. Merry and Pippin were paralyzed. Frodo and Sam fought off their attackers. The wights seized the stunned hobbits, but Sam was able to successfully sing out for Tom Bombadil's help, and soon he arrived from the west. Frodo and Sam continued to fend off the wights. Tom Bombadil was able to free Pippin from the wight's spell. Sam was finally able to escape the Barrow Downs. A wight tried to paralyse Frodo, but Tom's magic was stronger! The wight carrying Merry had finally reached its barrow and began trying to sacrifice him. Tom soon came to the hobbits rescue, and Merry sprang back out into the sunlight. Tom Bombadil was then able to successfully banish the wights attacking Frodo, Merry, and Pippin, allowing them to escpae.

Thanks to Tom Bombadil, the hobbits had evaded the clutches of the barrow-wights and could make their way on to Bree.

Bucklebury Ferry

September 25, 3018 After their encounter with the ringwraiths in Woody End, the hobbits travel carfully down through the Eastfarthing. They meet Merry, who has become worried at their late arrival. Now there is but one final challenge for the four hobbits to overcome before they can escape the Shire: Bucklebury Ferry.

Layout

The picture is of the battlefield looking south
Forces
The Good Side is made up of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. All are armed with sturdy blades.
The Evil Side is made up of 3 Nazgul, armed with wicked swords.
Deployment
The Hobbits deploy on the west(right) side of the battlefield. The Nazgul deploy in the woods.
Objectives
The evil side wins if they can kill Frodo. The good side wins if they can escape via the Ferry.

The hobbits split up, Frodo and Pippin going left, Merry and Sam going right. The Nazgul blundered about, trying to catch the hobbits, but their poor daylight vision ensured that they never touched the hobbits. One was even unaware of the hobbits' presence! In no time, the hobbits had boarded the ferry, and were safely out of reach. And...that's it? Wow.

The hobbits have escaped the Shire. With Merry as their guide, they pass into the Old Forest, a strange and dangerous land.

Warriors of Middle-earth: the Hobbits

Frodo has undertaken the quest to carry the Ring to Mordor and cast it into Mount Doom, thus ending its power forever. Though Frodo is hardly as bold or as feirce a warrior as many others in Middle-earth, he alone has  the strength of character needed to succeed. For the Ring has a will of its own. The Ring wants to be found!

Sam is Frodo's companion and loyal friend - of all the Fellowship only Sam is unable to abandon Frodo to his journey to Mordor to destroy the Ring.

Meriadoc Brandybuck, commonly called Merry, is a young hot-headed and meddlesome hobbit, like his good friend Peregrin Took.

Peregrin took, commonly called Pippin, is the great friend and companion of the equally young and wild Meriadoc Brandybuck. By a chance encounter, they find themselves propelled from their rustic lives in the Shire into danegr of the darkest and most terrible kind.

From left to right: Sam, Pippin, Frodo, Merry

Much as the ringwraiths drive the early part of the story, so the Hobbits are the focus for Good.

The Story so Far

In the Land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Ring, to control all others. One by one, the free lands of Middle-earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who resisted. A Last Alliance of Men and Elves marched on the armies of Mordor, and on the slopes of Mount Doom they fought for the freedom of Middle-earth. In that last combat the High King of Gondor and of the Noldorin were slain, but Sauron too was cast down.

The Ring was lost for thousands of years. Now destiny has placed the Ring in the most unlikely of hands: a Hobbit, Frodo Baggins. Aided by his friends, Frodo sets out on a perilous quest to destroy the Ring in the very fires of it's creation.

But the Dark Lord has again emerged, and now he commands and army bred for a single purpose: to destroy the Free Peoples. If Sauron should reclaim the Ring, he will become greater and more powerful than ever, and darkness shall once again fall over Middle-earth.