Elrond's story

War was upon MountDoom. Not to long ago (at least to the Elves, for the humans beside us it were over 30 years), Sauron had gained more and more power. He misguided the Elves of Eregion, under command of Celebrimbor, with his false intentions and tricked them into making the Rings. But what they didn't know was that Sauron had forged a Ring himself, the one Ring. When Celebrimbor finally found out what was happening, he hid the three Elven-Rings, but all the others; nine for the human-kings and seven for the Dwarves, fell under the power of Saurons Ring, with which he could control all people who lived in Middle-Earth. For that is what he wished to be, the ruler of Middle-Earth, to choose who had to live and who had to die...

He wanted to get rid of Men and Elves, so that his orcs and evil-men could live freely in all lands, without being challenged by his enemies. The evil-men, such as the Harad, followed him because he offered them a chance to get revenge on the ones they thought had done them wrong. And then there were the orcs, his pets; they obeyed his every order. They were once Elves, long ago, in the times when Melkor still roamed Middle-Earth. He tortured the Elves, took away their pride and their love for nature, sun and stars, and turned them into beasts, heartless creatures that knew no mercy and loved to torture their captives before slaughtering them.

They enjoyed creating a massacre, their targets were most of the time Men-villages unaware of the threat hanging above them; they always kept a few persons alive to "play" with.

But more then Men, they hated Elves, for they were the exact opposite of one another. Elves represented everything the orcs hated...

Sauron started breeding with the made orcs and created a huge army, that was, though not very smart, very eager to fight and to kill the Free Peoples of Middle-Earth. Together with the humans that came to Sauron's army, he had made himself an army loyal to him and ready to get rid of his enemies. The humans were a dangerous addition, because they were just as crazy as the orcs, but a lot smarter.

Sauron had built himself a fortress in the land of Mordor, where he gathered his army. From there he started his attack on the Free Peoples of Middle-Earth...

There was very little Men, Elves and Dwarves could do against it. The Dwarves crept even further back into their houses in the mountains and they sealed them off for the outside world as well as they could.

But Men and Elves weren't that lucky. Living in the open air or in the woods, they formed the perfect targets for Sauron's servants. Most of them fled, but there were very few that could really escape, they would probably just run into the next band of orcs.

At first they tried to fight the orcs and to help their human-friends. But almost every fight they fought was lost because they fought against armies that outnumbered them...

And when more fights were lost and many immortal lives were spilled, most of the Elves lost hope for victory. They fled to the last places where they would be save: Lothlórien, protected by the powers of Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn; Rivendell, were I was in charge; and off course, the Grey Havens. Many of Círdan's ships sailed to the Undying Lands those years, filled with Elves who had lost too much to still have hope... Hope that they once again could live in peace and happiness in Middle-Earth. So they left Middle-Earth and sailed to a happier place. But they didn't just leave Middle-Earth, but they also left the Men alone, who had now become the main targets of Sauron's armies, for most Elves had left or had sought shelter…