A Note about The Burping Troll Adventures

Like many Tolkien fans, we wanted to move to Middle-Earth. And like many others we created a Role Playing Group to do so. The Inn of the Burping Troll opened in February of 2002 on the Netscape LOTR Message Board, and was soon populated by an exotic assortment of elves, men, hobbits and orcs, along with a bartending balrog and a warg that could talk. As the months passed, however, the personae we adopted took on their own lives. The characters brought in friends and relatives, and finally a mysterious stranger arrived to turn the place on its ear.

The second phase of The Burping Troll began with the creation of burpingtroll.com in October 2002, to archive the new, more powerful stories the characters insisted we tell. We established much stricter canonical guidelines concerning our use of Tolkien’s landscapes; our characters became part of a greater tapestry as we delved into Gondor and Ithilien of the Fourth Age, and the changes their people faced with Shadow's end.

The stories filed here under BT Adventurers are the longer collaborative works. Role-playing is long abandoned as we pursue the craft of storytelling, and with each tale ask the boundless questions, "What if?" and "What happened?" We strive earnestly to preserve the wonder of Tolkien's Middle-earth, and to carry readers forward into the new world of the Fourth Age, where courage and loyalty, love and friendship must light the way even where lingering shadows still dwell. Come journey with us, where Aragorn, the king Elessar rules from the White City, Faramir maintains the peace in Ithilien, and Rohan still resounds to the swift beat of hooves under the kingship of Eomer Eomund's son.

For some of our authors' individual works, see our Favorite Authors page.

Editorial Note: We write original characters. Know this. Our stories include but are not centered on Tolkien's canon characters, such as Aragorn or Arwen or Faramir. We write a view of the Fourth Age as seen by the ordinary folk of Gondor and northern Ithilien, those who live, love, struggle and scheme in a time of change and renewal. Wouldn't you like to see what the world might look like, if you were a traveler on the roads of Middle-earth? Come with us to The Inn of The Burping Troll, and let us show you the way ...