Chapter 1: The Shadows of the Past

"Everything that once was is now forgotten, history has now become myth, myth became legend." It was the time before man ruled the Earth, when elves and dwarves roamed the land of Middle Earth.

In the beginning, the three great rings were forged. Each had the power to rule their race, and their race alone except one master ring that had the power to rule them all.

"Three rings for the Eleven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf- lords in their halls of stone,

Nine rings for Moral men domed to die,

One ring for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

'One Ring to rule them all,

One Ring to find them,

One Ring to bring the all and in the darkness bind them,'

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."

Soon, the first war of the rings began. All had thought the Dark Lord Sauron was defeated on the slopes of Mountain Doom, but rarely is rumor correct. There was peace for a time, but evil surfaced again, and the ring heard it. Its long slumber was broken by a most unlikely occurrence; it was picked up by one of the most unlikely creatures of Middle Earth - a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins.

The ring was eventually passed on to his heir, Frodo, who on the advice of Gandalf the Grey and the Elves of Rivendale took the ring to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom.

Thousands of years passed, and the tale of the ring became nothing but a story to the people of Earth. Mount Doom lay forgotten, as did most of Middle Earth. That is until one day when the fires of Mountain Doom rose to the sky, a cloaked figure summoned the ring of power from the fires of Mountain Doom.

The cloaked figure then went to the throne room of Barad-dur, where he sat down and summoned the orcs to him.

In their own guttural speech, know as the black speech, he commanded them, "I am your new master, and you, the foulest creatures of Middle Earth, shall build me an army to take over the world."

After setting the orcs to their work, he called forth his faithful servant, Wormtail, pulled back the sleeve of his robe, and forcefully jammed his finger into the tattoo on his arm. The tattoo depicted a skull with a snake sliding through the eyes and falling out of the mouth; it was known as the dark mark. Soon, other faithful Death Eaters arrived, puzzled as to why and where they had been summoned.

"My loyal Death Eaters, you shall see a new era in our world. A great army of the past shall rise up to defeat all who stand in our way- Muggles, Mudbloods, and Blood Traitors alike"