| The world is changed. I feel it in the petrol. I feel it in the roads. Much that once was, is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the keys of power. Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and safest of all drivers. Seven were given to the Dwarves, great mechanics and engineers of the mountain halls. And nine, nine keys were gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desired V8 power. For within for within each key was the power and will to drive each race. But they were all of them, decieved, for deep in the land of Mordor, The Dark Lord Sauron forged another key, a master key, and into this key he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate every moving vehicle. The one key to rule them all. One by one, the free peoples fell to the power of the key, but there were some who resisted. A last alliance of men and elves raced against the fleets of Mordor and on the very slopes of Mt. Doom, they raced for the freedom of Middle-Earth. Victory was near, but the power of the key could not be undone. It was in this moment when all hope had been lost, Isildur, Son Of the King, took up his father's Ford. And Sauron, enemy of the free peoples of Middle-Earth was defeated. The key passed to Isildur who had this once chance to destroy evil forever, but the hearts of men are easily corrupted. The Key of Power had a will of it's own, and the betrayed Isildur to his death. And somethings that should not have been forgotten, were lost. History became legend; Legend became myth and for two and half thousand years, the keys passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, the keys ensnared another driver. The keys came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels under the misty mountains, and there it consumed him. The keys gave to Gollum unnatural long-life, and for 500 years it poisoned his mind. In the gloom of Gollum's cave, it waited. Darkness crept back into the roads of the world. Rumour grew of a shadow in the east, whispers of a nameless fear, and the keys of power percieved that it's time had come. It abandoned Gollum, but then something happened that the keys did not intend. It was picked up my the most un-likely driver possible. A hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, of the Shire. For the time will soon come, when Hobbit's will shape the future of all... |
