Cirith Ennor
Cirith Ennor was first planned as a sort of joke. I don't think that we ever planned to make it. The idea first arrived around New Years, 2002, when Robyn went to stay with Caitlin and they spent two hours making up a song (which can be found in Mordor once you've found the password).
We decided that instead of letting someone else put it up on their website, we'd make one of our own. Caitlin had made other websites before. So she could design it. Robyn was good at coming up with funny things. So there would have to be a humour page. And from then on it grew and grew. Each week we'd chat on the phone, text and e-mail each other and so the ideas bounced back and forth and the website began to take shape. The name took a little longer to come up with. Caitlin had started to put together a forum which they could advertise and prepare people for the website with. But it needed a name. Of course is had to fit. And as both Caitlin and Robyn were obsessed with Elves something Elvish would be nice. Unfortunately they couldn't come up with anything suitable. So for a long time the site was known, rather ominously, as 'The Website'. Until one day at the end of March, when Caitlin was at work, and very bored. So she went looking on all the Elvish dictionaries to try to find a name which would fit. The site was going to be a guided tour around Middle-earth, she looked up Middle-earth. Ennor! Now they just had to find something else, to plump it out a bit... Window to Middle-earth? Path to Middle-earth? Passage to Middle-earth? They had it. Cirith Ennor. After some frantic texting and e-mailing Robyn agreed Cirith Ennor was a very fitting name. So that was that. Then came the domain name... Caitlin already owned her own domain name, upon which there was a rather odd little website which was never updated. However, Caitlin's Dad (did we mention he'd a really wonderful person?) offered to buy a more Lord of the Rings-esque domain name, for the pair and their site. Of course they agreed, and so a test page was launched and the site was almost complete... But not completely complete. It still had to be uploaded. And as that wasn't going to happen until the summer of 2003 (when they had time to put it up) a smaller site was produced, without any of the guided tour stuff. It was the Cirith Ennor Teaser Page and gave visiters a taster of what was to come. Then disaster struck. The laptop which Caitlin had been building the site on, using FrontPage, died. Now this meant that approximately two hours and four pages (plus the journal pages) which had not been backed up were gone. Was this a bad thing? Not at all, it meant that Caitlin could rebuild the whole site without FrontPage or HoT MetaL Pro and just use Notepad and Raw HTML. And that is the site that you are looking at today.