Yeah, I know it's an acquired taste - and not exactly an easy read. I didn't even expect anyone else than the people who've already grown interested in Halabor and its inhabitants to read it. There are too many OCs, too little link to the most popular canon characters - although Gildor Inglorion will appear in the next chapter, and in the future, more and more canonical ones will be coming. The second part of the story takes place in Lossarnach and Minas Tirith, after all.

But personally, it's all about Halabor for me. How the people lived there under the shadow of Mordor, what the perils of daily life were - again, in the next chapter you'll see that Orcs aren't the only problem... in short, what life was like in Gondor outside of Minas Tirith or Dol Amroth.

Plus, as I have a vexed interest for the Middle Ages, I get a major kick out of all the research, of course. *g*