The forging of the Rings of Power began some 1500 years into the Second Age. The Witch-king is gifted his Ring of Power as a human 5.2.3 The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Questīiography The Second Age: the Nine Rings and the advent of the Nazgûl.5.2.1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.5.1.1 The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.1.5 Return to Mordor and the rise of Minas Morgul.1.3 The Witch-king's conquest of the North.1.2 The Third Age: return and the arising of Angmar.1.1 The Second Age: the Nine Rings and the advent of the Nazgûl.In his hour of triumph at the Pelennor, however, he was killed by the hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck and Éowyn, niece of Théoden, at the end of the War of the Ring. He led Sauron's armies in the War of the Ring, stabbed Frodo Baggins on Weathertop during the first months of Frodo's venture out of the Shire to Rivendell, and at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields he broke the gates of Minas Tirith, and killed King Théoden of Rohan.Ĭhief lieutenant and greatest servant of the Dark Lord across over four millennia of Middle-earth history, he was a mighty leader and an undying sorcerer of incomparable fear and dread. The Witch-king returned to Mordor to facilitate Sauron's return to power, then took Gondor's city of Minas Ithil and refortified it as the fearful Minas Morgul, and there snuffed out the line of kings of Gondor too. His true identity is unknown once a king of Men, possibly of Númenórean heritage, he was corrupted by one of the nine Rings of Power that had been given to the lords of men, becoming a wraith in the service of Sauron.Īfter Sauron's defeat by the Last Alliance, he hid for over a millennium but eventually reappeared to found the evil realm of Angmar, where he gained the epithet "Witch-king" and ruled for almost seven centuries until the kingdom of Arnor was conquered. The Lord of the Nazgûl, also known as the Witch-king of Angmar, was the leader of the Nazgûl (Ringwraiths) and Sauron's second-in-command in the Second and Third Ages. " - The Return of the King, " The Battle of the Pelennor Fields" now he was come again, bringing ruin, turning hope to despair, and victory to death. A crown of steel he bore, but between rim and robe naught was there to see, save only a deadly gleam of eyes: the Lord of the Nazgûl.
John Stephenson (The Return of the King), Andy Serkis (The Fellowship of the Ring) " Upon it sat a shape, black-mantled, huge and threatening.
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