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Adventurer's Tower

Milicianos Druwaith Iaur Completo - Torre del Alguacil labeled Fanlon 2

The Sheriff's Tower in the late Third Age
(Milicianos Drúwaith Iaur Completo (in Spanish))

Adventower

Location of Adventurer's Tower in the Westmarch (MERP)
Type
Watchtower
Region
Realm
Calenardhon, Gondor
later: Rohan
People(s)
Time period

The northwestern area of the Westmarch that followed the Angren to its convergence with the Adorn was very lightly populated, and was (in the years about T.A. 1640) ruled strangely enough by three relatively young men, Reaslos, Glëan, and Camdin. These three were adventurers in the South and in Calenardhon, who happened to fall into circumstances that enabled them to help the king’s family personally. To reward them for their services he gave them this area of land for their own, along with an old border watchtower. Now, they were actively trying to figure out how to govern, and secretly wishing they could drop the whole thing and go off wandering in search of new thrills. Mercifully, the people they were supposed to be governing were few and very patient. They considered the three their pet rulers and treated them like adopted sons, for the most part. The adventurers were basically good men (albeit greedy at times) and felt responsible for the people's safety, so no real strife had occurred between themselves and the people, as of yet. In fact, the three had standing dinner engagements at the house of a local rancher whose wife worried about them not eating right. They had fixed up the tower in the two years that they had been there, and it served as their home as well as garrison for the ten men they had as retainers and servants.

Later times[]

By the late Third Age the tower had been modified, burned down, and rebuilt many times, and few could recognize on first sight that the building was based on far older Dúnadan foundations. It, and indeed also the adjacent hamlet and farms, had become known as Scírrefas Tor (Éo. "Tower of the shire-reeves" or "Sheriff's Tower"), for the tower had once been used as a base of operations and courtroom by the local Gerefa.

References[]

  • Randell Doty: Tales of the Westmarch
  • Milicianos Drúwaith Iaur Completo (in Spanish)
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