Chapter 966: Roslorian's Crisis

After Gandalf left the Woodland Kingdom, he immediately traveled south to the Eneid region, where the main conflict between humans and elves was this time. The humans who inhabited there had a violent conflict with the elves for various reasons. And this conflict has reached the point where it is about to lead to war.

In fact, the area has been inhabited by humans for a long time, and in the first and early second eras, the area was rich in forests, and since the arrival of the Númenóreans, the surface has been greatly damaged. It was already difficult to see the large native forest resources, which led the humans here to start looking at Rothlorian, because there was still a vast forest.

In the beginning, humans went to the forest where the elves lived to cut wood, which caused discontent from the elves. Human logging is not simply used for fire and heating, they have a strong demand for forest resources. A series of events, including the construction of houses, require timber resources. In the Ene area, after a long period of indiscriminate deforestation, forest resources have long been scarce. The elves and Roslorian are a country built in the forest, and because of Viryavana, the elves' buildings are mostly made of boulders, and they respect the forest very much and will not cut it down indiscriminately.

But it is clear that human beings do not have this kind of consciousness compared to them. Especially with the gradual growth of human population, the demand for timber resources has gradually become stronger. A large area of the Ennaides lacked sufficient forest resources, so they began to enter the territory of Roslorian to cut down trees without notifying the elves.

In the beginning, Galadriel and the elves of Rothlorian were unconcerned about human timber cutting. They just think that this is a necessary thing to do in human life, so they have been ignoring it. However, when they discover that humans are cutting wood more and more than just for the sake of satisfying life, this causes the unanimous displeasure of all the elves, including Galadriel. As a result, the elves chose to expel the deforested and apparently over-the-top humans.

However, the humans ignored the elves' warnings and came to the vicinity of Roslorian once again to continue their logging business. And the number of people increased more and more, and in the end, Galadriel, who could not bear it, surrounded Roslorian with magic with the power of Nanya, the Water Ring, one of the three rings of the elves, and used the power of the Ring to interfere with the entry of humans into Roslorian.

Humans who can't get close to Roslorian are naturally dissatisfied with the elves' behavior. They continued to form groups to continue to Rothlorian, but due to the power of the Water Ring, it was difficult for humans to go as deep into Rothlorian as they had done in the past. They continued to shout insults and insult the elves in the outside world, and the elves resolutely expelled the human beings once again.

However, these did not form a nation, or even a city-state, and the human beings were primitive and backward, scattered all over the En Naide in the form of villages. They are not medium humans, nor are they friends and distant relatives of the Edenians, they belong to the 'dark humans', enemies and aliens. They are obviously more barbaric and bloody than the human kingdom with a mature civilization. They also advocated the use of force to solve all problems, and so the expelled humanity began to arms. Even though their equipment is extremely rudimentary and their civilization is very primitive, they are much more numerous than the elves.

Even though, after the Battle of Valinor, the three tribes suffered heavy losses, and the proportion of the population fell to the lowest peak in history. When the three tribes returned to Middle-earth after the Battle of Valinor, after so many years of recuperation, humans and dwarves had already recovered, and the population had increased to varying degrees. But compared to the elves, they still haven't recovered, and their population hasn't grown much. The low reproductive ability makes the elves even more powerful than humans and dwarves, but they face an absolute disadvantage in population. Roslorian is unfortunately at an absolute disadvantage in the conflict with humanity.

Although the humans living in the Enaide region are not as large as any other region on earth. However, in the vast and sparsely populated continent of Middle-earth, the humans in the Aynaid region can definitely be called strong enough. Even if their civilization is low, the advantage in population is more than enough to compensate for some problems. Moreover, after the conflict with Roslorian, these primitive and savage dark humans temporarily united. They sent people to the northwest, to the south, to find the human kingdom there to buy weapons.

Gondor and Rohan don't know what their purpose was, they not only sold a large number of weapons to the Aneid humans, but also gave away a batch of military supplies. And the dark humans with sophisticated weapons, even if their civilization is low, they have the confidence to start a war with the elves. Coupled with their large population, this is one of the reasons why Roslorian is extremely uneasy, plus Roslorian is very close to the human kingdom of Rohan and Gondor. Once these two human nations joined, then Roslorian would definitely not be their opponent.

Therefore, Galadriel, who was worried about the war, would take a small number of guards and go to the woodland kingdom, which also belongs to the elven branch, to ask for help. Although, the population of the three major elven states is also not comparable to that of humans. However, the unity of the three elven forces is enough to deal with the immediate crisis. However, Galadriel did not expect that the lord of the woodland kingdom, Thranduil, would not care about the friendship between the elves and refuse to send troops to help. In desperation, Galadriel can only go to Rivendell for help, although there is one less ally, but if Rivendell is added, then their chances of victory will also be great.

Gandalf, with such a sense of urgency, went south in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Thranduil, and he wanted to stop the war that should not have happened. lest the excessive fighting between humans and elves accumulate grudges, thus delaying the future plan against Sauron. However, Gandalf, who hurried south, was disappointed, and the savage dark humans did not heed his kind persuasion. They are primitive and stubborn, believing that force can solve everything. They banished Gandalf, ignoring Gandalf's persuasions, and once again gathered their men to prepare for an invasion of Rothlorian.

Gandalf saw that this was the case, and he gave up trying to persuade the humans, because he found that even with Maia's eloquence and wisdom, reasoning with a group of lowly and dark humans would not work. As a result, an enraged Gandalf returned to Rothlorian and took the time to tell Galadriel the news, asking her to inform Elrond of Rivendell and prepare to deal with the human threat together.

When Galadriel found out, he immediately arranged for someone to go to Rivendell to inform Elrond. At the same time, the residents of Roslolian were instructed to hurry up and prepare for war. As a result, the warehouse of weapons was opened, and pieces of fine weapon armor were taken out. At the same time, the furnace ignited a raging fire, and the excellent craftsmen of the elves began to hammer and forge weapons, armor, and arrows. At the same time, Galadriel organized the rangers to patrol the borders of Rothlorian day and night, and immediately reported if they found a large-scale human figure.

As the war-related orders were quickly passed on, the whole of Roslorian immediately became nervous. The elves also felt the imminence of war, but this time they were fighting not with the orcs under Sauron's command, but with the humans who were once allies. Because, their homeland is facing extinction, and the people in the barbaric and rude, low-civilization Enaide region are too fond of cutting down trees. Like the Númenóreans in the past, they had ravaged the forests of the Enaids, and now they were looking at them.

While all the elves were indignant, a sadness surged in their hearts, when did they start to fall to the current scene. Actually forced by a group of barbarian humans with almost no civilization to the point of uniting the entire elven race?

The elves are thinking, reminiscing, but more often than not, resentment!