Three hundred years after the War of the Ring, and ten years after the Great Olmer’s invasion of Middle-earth, war flares up again. War for the sake of war—blood for blood. Armies march one after another, and everyone turns against everyone.
Fálco Brandybuck—the hobbit Falco Brandybuck—is one of the few who can feel the echo of the coming end of the world. And he is the only one who connects the new war with the mysterious Light shining in the south. No one yet knows what this Light is, who directs it, or where it came from.
Fálco and his friends, the dwarves, will have to find this out in order to prevent the coming of the Last Battle.
The hidden Mid-Kingdom’s magicians add their part to the bigger picture, and so do the warrior Sandello who wields an ancient sword, the nine Nazgûl, and even the mysterious Blue Mist. And in the end, as in all Middle-earth stories, it turns out that the road led Fálco not where he expected when he stepped onto it…