I learned many things while creating my stories.  First off, I learned that the works of JRR Tolkien are more extensive than I ever dreamed.  I though that I knew more than I actually did.  My stories were based off of characters and places I was familiar with, but I did not know all of the little details about those characters.  Everything from ancestry to story lines in books I have yet to read, I learned during this project.  When people read my pages, I want them to not only learn some facts about characters and places, but I want to inspire them to read JRR Tolkien’s works.  If I succeed in this endeavor, then my project was a success. 

            The one thing that people need to know before they read my stories is that they are based off of real characters and places, but that the situations (and some titles of status) are my own creation.  These are not retellings of Tolkien’s stories, rather a continuation from where he left off.  All of these continuations are derived from story lines in The Hobbit.  The stories that I have written tell the stories of seven characters: (1) Thranduil: King of Mirkwood, (2) The Spiders of Mirkwood, (3) Beorn the Skin-Changer, (4) The Stone Giants, (5) Gloin: Father of Gimli, (6) Bard the Bowman, and (7) The Wargs of Middle-Earth.  Links to these stories can be found before this introduction. 

            The sources for my stories are the complete works of JRR Tolkien, but mainly The Hobbit.  As I have not yet been able to read all of his books, I used useful web pages to receive needed information.  Links to these pages can be found below.  From these sources I took information about characters and places, and created my own stories for these characters.  I tell what I think might have happened to them during the War of the Ring.