You post places or characters from Tolkien Legendarium

What you post depends on the post before.
The post before is either a character (say C1) or a place (say P1)

Option A : you choose a character (C2) :
- C2 must be the same race (*) and have either direct family relationship with C1 (wife/husband, mother/father , son/daughter or sister/brother) - or they have shared a common story (this is to open the game a little bit though I admit it may make it confusing)
The only exceptions of the "same race" rules are he few inter-races wedding in the Legendarium (eg Thingol/Melian , Aragorn/Arwen)

- C2 must have travelled in P1 and C2 must be different race than the character posted before P1.

Option B : You choose a place (P2).
Here it is easy : C1 must have travelled in P2. Place should be specific enough.
But you cannot post a place if previous post is a place too.

(*) Here are the races I suggest : valar, maiar (including istani), elves, humans, dwarves - let's consider hobbits as separate from human ...

OK - I admit it may be a bit difficult to catch by reading - but keep in mind that westron is not my natural language ;-)

Examples :

Legolas
Aragorn : incorrect because elf<>human

Frodo
Cirith Ungol : correct: frodo has travelled Cirith Ungol
Sam Gamgee : incorrect because same race as Frodo

Frodo
Helcaraxe : incorrect (Frodo hates ice-skatting)

Mirkwood
Dol Guldur : incorrect : 2 places

Fingon
Thranduil : incorrect because these 2 elves do not have 1st degrees family relationship and share no story

Hurin
Huor : correct

There are probably some dead corners in this game which are interestesd to explore (I have a few in mind ...)

Aniway I am opened to suggestion if you feel the rules are too confusing...

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here I go :
Ungoliant

Samwise Gamgee

I think we need a few more examples in the first post to better show us the pattern. Because I'm guessing here. Also Cirith Ungol was the house of Shelob, the many-times-removed daughter of Ungoliant.

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I re-wrote game rules and put them on the top.
I move one from the previous post
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Bag End

Fili-also a visiting dwarf
did I do it right?

E’rendil - Father

Yavanna (lived there)

Dwarves - (sons of)

gimli (traveled there)

Drogo (Frodo's daddy)

Right? Am I doing this properly? I'm still a bit fuzzy on the rules...I'm sorry.

Here I am supposed to post a character that is NOT a hobbit but who travelled here (this is to remind the rules ...).

hmmm. not that easy. I'll go for King-Witch of Angmar - Captain of the Nazgul . Think it is mentionned in UT that he stayed here for a while when the nine were looking for Frodo. Is that correct ?

Elendil (stood there waiting for Gil-galad)

Bag End

Lonely Mountain

Lake Town

Bard - not a relative, but involved in the same story

Mirkwood/Greenwood (travelled through it, more than once if I'm extrapolating correctly)

Numenor - went there as hostage

Annuminas (his city)

Minas Tirith

... well here I have to recal one specific aspect of the rule of this game (that is supposed to make it harder some times) : when you post a character after a place it must NOT be the same race that the character before the above place - and I this case of course the family relationship is broken - in this game "place" is the mandatory mean by which you shift race