The End of Menelmacar

After a good month of compelete inactivity, Ric Lyon has declared the end of OAM, and with it the official end of the Menelmacar era. This end was long anticipated, because before the last month of inactivity, the country had already been withering away for about a year and was only being kept alive by idle chatting between Mari Greenwood and Kathyrn.

In his final speech, Ric Lyon, probably the only person who had citizenship in all incarnations of the micronation, referred to the hopeful start of the new nation in the summer of 2002 and to its long and slow downfall during the following year. His speech was written in Tolkienian style, in accordance with the theme of the micronation. Finally he addressed the new inhabitants of the land that Menelmacar once occupied on the MCS map: "My last hopes remain in the new rulers of Fëanoria, that they will toil the barren land, and make her once more bloom in all splendour. Blessings I give to the friends in the Red Antilles of the Fëanorian Isles." Ironically he ended the speech in the OAM forum with "peace and somemen", a phrase contributed to Archetype23, former arch-enemy of this part of Menelmacar.

It is not certain that Ric Lyon had the authority to declare the end of Menelmacar, as he officially resigned his citizenship on the 25th of February this year. However, it is unlikely that anybody cares enough to contest his declaration.