Witch-king
Nazgul lord of Ringwraiths. The Witch-king was originally a sorcerer king of the Second Age who was given the first of the Nine Rings by the Lord of the Rings. He became the Lord of the Nazgul, or Ringwraiths. During the Second Age, he commanded Sauron�s forces and fought his battles, but with the downfall of the Ring Lord and the taking of the One Ring, he was swept away into a shadowy limbo. However, since the One Ring was not destroyed, after a thousand years Sauron called him back from the shadows. In 1300 of the Third Age, He rose up in the form of the Witch-king of Angmar. For nearly seven centuries he made constant war on the North-kingdom of Arnor until 1974, when he destroyed its last stronghold in Arthedain. The next year, his own forces were routed and his kingdom of Angmar destroyed after the Battle of Fornost. The destruction of the North-kingdom of, the Dünedain having been achieved, in the year 2000, he turned his attentions to the South-kingdom of Gondor. He attacked and took Minas Ithil, and renamed it Minas Morgul. As the Witch-king of Morgul, he fought and harried the realm of Gondor for a thousand years. In 3018, disguised as one of the Black Riders , he led the other Wraiths to the Shire in search of the One Ring. At Weathertop, he wounded the Ringbearer, then pursued him as far as the Fords of Rivendell. In 3019, the Witch-king led his vast Morgul army and his Haradrim allies in an attack on the White Tower. In the Battle of Pelennor Fields he slew King Théoden, but in a strange fulfillment of the prophecy that he could not be slain by the hand of Man he met his death at the hands of the Rohirrim shield-maiden, Eowyn, and the Hobbit, Meriadoc Brandybuck, armed with a charmed Elven blade.
