Day Six of #RPGaDay2019: Ancient

Welcome to the sixth day of RPGaDay, where we celebrate all that is good and true about tabletop roleplaying games, thanks to the innovative foresight of David Chapman. Today’s word prompt is a delicious one: ANCIENT. One of the more fascinating aspects of fantasy roleplaying, particularly in regard to Dungeons & Dragons, these fantastical worlds…

Aur Onnad Meren, Telcontar!

Aur Onnad Meren, Telcontar, or for those of you who don’t speak elvish, Happy Birthday, Strider. Aragorn, son of Arathorn and Gilraen, was born on this day, the 1st of March, in the 2931st year of the Third Age. While the noble Aragorn, champion of the West and the twenty-sixth King of Arnor, thirty-fifth King…

Aur Onnad Meren, Professor Tolkien!

We here at the Oak Hill RPG Club invite you all to raise a horn to the memory and legacy of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, beloved author and architect of Middle Earth, whose 127th birthday is this very day, the 3rd of January. Tolkien’s boundless imagination and studious dissection and reinvention of the Northern…

The Dúnadan makes a wish

His name is Aragorn, son of Arathorn, sometimes called the Dúnadan, Longshanks, Wingfoot, Elessar Telcontar, Envinyatar, Estel, or Thorongil. But to me, he is just Strider and I fell in love with the character when I was a wee lad of 12 or so when I first cracked open The Fellowship of the Ring. Today…