Christopher Tolkien

As scholars pore over fragments unearthed from the archaeological site at Bovadium, a handful of documents written in two languages reveal the secrets of this ancient place, which have lain buried for centuries. Evidently once upon a time a Daemon arose in nearby Vaccipratum, who by his cunning devised abominable machines, which he called Motores. The people of Bovadium first became enamoured of these machines, but soon became their slaves ; and as the roads were gridlocked and the city polluted by their fumes, the end of Bovadium was nigh.