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I'll tell you what - I have no actual set Age for this RP, as of yet (this is just an interest thread), but I would be interested to know if anyone would be interested in a First [i]or[/i] Fourth Age RP sort of...looking back.

The First is clearly set in the 'glory days' of Arda, while the Fourth does allow more exploration post-WoTR, and even a little bit of invention on the players/characters parts.

I will say now that the general idea was to head into 'parts unknown' - the East or Far Harad most likely - and aid in the recovery of one of the two otherwise 'lost' Silmarils.

A Fourth Age setting would aid in this, I believe, as vast upheavals caused by Sauron and the toppling of Barad-Dur as well as the just the general affect of the war on folks would probably cause a more 'dark age' feel to the tale.

Then again, that is allegedly why Tolkien didn't write a Fourth Age book in the first place.
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I am all for Fourth Age, too. I've experimented in it before, writing of the unification of Gondor and Rohan under Elessar Telcontar and the aftermath in Mordor. Coincidentally, I love exploring the Eastern lands - Khand is one of my favourite of Tolkien's creations despite the limited information available, and I'm pretty sure I know everything there is to know about the Variags, the Kekhavrathi, etc.