The darkness shall fall

by ThemyThink

When Talion won the fight against the black hand he took the force of orks he had with him and retreated to Núrn to dominate more of the orcs there and restore the enslaved tribesmen to the warriors they were a short while ago, before their defeat. What if the nation he created still lives at the end of the war of the rings and gondor discovers evidence of their excistense?

1. Chapter 1

The darkness shall fall

TA 2591

"The time has come for a new ring" said Talion as he turned around to the orcs that he had posessed with the help of celebrimbor.

"man the gates you worthless orcs. let none that dont bear the mark of me enter or exit this forsaken land!" yelled Talion

"Are you sure this is wise? we dont have enough uruks here to hold the gate if the enemy comes knocking." said celebrimbor as he appeared out of thin air, looking thoughtful." We could retreat back to the shores of Núrn, consolidate our position there in the fortress of Barad Nurn. There are ample supplies there with what we could support our growing army. We have the trust of the local resistance and you controll all the local warlords."

"Yes but it would be harder for us to take back the black gate if the enemy is fully aware of our existence and that we have a big amount of forces under our controll." retorted talion, defending his position.

"yes but we could starve mordor into submission if we held the shores of Núrn, they wouldnt have enough food to feed their armies and that would lead them into a desperate attack, an attack like that would draw away enough uruks from the coming war effort. We could buy time for the rest of Middle Earth to prepare for the war." Celebrimbor stayed sure of himself.

"all right, well do it your way" surrendered Talion "but if we die again, i am going to destroy a pack of Ghûls and their matron by draining their minds." Was Talions last argument

Talion torned around defeatedly sighing and started yelling at his orcs. " okay uruks, change of plans, we are going to strip the gate of any and all supplies and we are going back to barad Núrn!" Talion yelled so that all his orcs could hear him, then he sat down, took out the dwarven whetstone he found earlier and started sharpening his sword.

hours passed and so it was nightfall before Talion was finally happy with his gear. He stood up and asked "how far have the orcs gotten?"

"The orcs are only a few hours journey away from Barad Núrn, why did you stay behind and didnt go with them?" asked celebrimbor as he appeared behind Talion and walked infront of him." If we want to build up your troops you need to brand uruks one by one or brand their commanders."

"Yes, i know that, remeber what i said about forging a new ring?" Talion could see that he had attracted the intrest of his partner. " Well, i had an idea that we could forge a new ring of power, one that would serve us, and not Sauron." Talion looked at celebrimbor pleadingly." So please tell my that my assumptions are correct, that we can create a ring that would give os power to combat Sauron, even if he regains his ring of power."

"You do not understand what it takes to forge a ring with that kind of power, it takes great evil and malevolence or raw power to make a ring of power, I as a spirit cannot command that amount of power anymore." Celebrimbor admitted sadly, " I cannot give you the power you seek anymore, but i can make you minor rings that have some of the abilities of the other rings. I could make you a ring that turns you invisible to the naked eye, for a short duration of course, a ring with what you could controll the workings of the very nature around you at a very limited scale. All the other types of powers my rings could give you are either not needed or you have the same attribute in spades."

"I could use a ring that turns me invisible, it would be easyer to sneak up on orc captains and warchiefs to brand them. But where will we get the materials, tools and workplaces?" Asked Talion as he started to think the idea more thoroughly trough.

"Correct, if i was still in the smithies of eregion i could do it, but that would require mithril anvils and all the other tools would have to be made of mithril. So no, we cannot make other rings of power, we just have to make do what we have and what we can steal from Sauron."

The two of them had been talking like that for a while and made it to a campsite that was populated by a few uruks. "Well ill let you get to work" said Celebrimbor as he dissapeared.

FA 11

Aragorn was enjoiying a quiet walk with his wife, Arwen , in the garden of kings in Minas Tirith when a messenger wearing the colors of the pircedom of Minas Ithil."I wonder what Faramir wants of me today, is it another reqest of troops to defend his borders from orcs that dont know when to quit fighting, or are the easterlings at it again?" mused Aragorn

"Lets wait and see, he will answer your question in due time my love" said Arwen as she looked at her husband lovingly.

"My liege, I bear urgent news from the men assingned at the black gate" said the messenger after kneeling down before his king.

" Is there trouble brewing there? I thought i had assigned 4 batallions to clear up the area around the black gate?" asked Aragorn, starting to make battle plans to make sure that his and his princedoms borders were safe.

"No, nothing like that." Stammered the messenger because he could see that the king was getting a bit angry.

"Then what is it? Is Faramir asking for men to take all of mordor back to gondor or something like that?" asked Aragorn as he placed his fingers on his temples in order to calm himself.

"Not excacly, some of our patrols captured and interrogated a local warchief and discovered that when sauron took over mordor from the then crumbling Gondor in TA 2951 he was not able to destroy the tribesmen of Núrn. We discovered that the army that you destroyed under the black gate was less that 1/6 of the enemies total army in Mordor. The rest is either guarding and working the surviving industry or... is sieging the tribesmen of Núrn and their so called traitorous orc armies. The tribesmen are being led by a so called gravewalker, a gondorian ranger. Prince faramir wants to use Gondors navy to take as many men we can pull from irrelevant posts and ship them through the river of Poros to the other side of the mountains of shadow. Then they would go to investigate if there really is a remmnant of local gondorian troops." explained the messenger to his king and queen

Both the queen and king stared at eachother, having a silent debate. Finally they seemed to reach a consensus after staring at eachother for atleast half an hour, the messenger was still kneeling infront of the pair, waiting their reply.

"Tell prince Faramir that we agree to provide him with some men and the fleet, and tell him that this is under his full responsability, if the expedition fails it will put him into an extremely bad position in the court and that he will lose alot of the support gondor and Dol Amroth are providing go" said Aragorn as he turned away and lead his wife into their royal bedroom, both requiring some relaxation after making a desiseon that could result in thousainds of men dying.

AN.

this is my second story at (the first i had to take down because i just lost my motivation at the amount of flames i got) and i just had to write it when i had completed Lord of the Rings: Shadow of Mordor. I just had such an urge to write about it, please dont flame me too much or i might loose motivation to write this, updates will be sporradical