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You're listening to Flamepoints on Lothlorien Radio,
we now go to Strider the Ranger for the Strider Report.
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In today's news, things heat up in Mordor, Insengard
begins illegally clearcutting old growth, and a contentious
convergance meeting in Rivendell seeks consensus on
how to deal with an impending fascist onslaught. In
Bree, I'm Strider.
Mount Doom is continuing to exhibit unusual activity,
leading many progressives to fear that the worst is
yet to come. Though the regime of Sauron hasn't had
the strength to attack its neighbors in centuries, observers
say it is possible that his minions are hard at work
planning ways to break alliances among the nations and
exploit racial suspicions which continue to persist,
and to ignite coups and install puppet dictators whereever
it is able. Sauron is said to be hungry for his One
Ring, reportedly having sent a death squad to the Shire
in the belief that the world's most powerful artifact
might have somehow surfaced in the small, unarmed, agrarian
state.
Meanwhile, in an apparent switch in political alignment,
Saruman the Wise has begun clearcutting huge areas of
forest in the vicinity of his Isengard headquarters,
apparently having sided with Sauron and seemingly bent
on developing a massive war machine. One can only wonder
what communications are occurring between Barador and
Isengard, but it looks as if they are planning a war
which will span for decades and dwarf any horror Middle
Earth has previously seen.
And finally, Rivendell was the scene of a contentious
meeting between the major bipedal races to discuss how
to address the impending crisis. The elfin and dwarven
delegations nearly came to blows several times throughout
the day, kept from a violent floor fight only by Gandalf
the Grey and a few Hobbits, whose plan the delegated
eventually ratified. With grim looks on their faces
and tearful fairwells, a international team departed
on a secret route to whereabouts unknown, with all the
hopes of Middle Earth hinged on the outcome.
And that's some of the news for today. In Bree, I'm
Strider the Ranger for Flamepoints.