The Dwarves stew in their own muck deep in the mountains. The Elves are a laughable remant of their former glory. Arnor lies dead, killed by his faithful servant while he was exiled. Gondor lies withered like the tree she fights for. Once again he fled into the deep shadows.Yet all this is in the past. There the valour of men and the shapness of a sword would prove to be his downfall. His armies were routed by an alliance of Elves and Men Barad-Dur itself was besieged. He ordered an attack upon these kingdoms, seeking to wipe out the last vestiges of Numenor. Yet Sauron managed to reverse his situation and even acheive the impossible: the corruption and destruction of Numenor.Sauron was furious when he first learned of the Kingdoms in Exile. In a humiliating display, he surrendered to Ar-Pharazon, who took him as a captive.

He set sail with a vast host and cornered Sauron, whose army had deserted him when faced the glory of Man. Ar-PharazГґn the Golden, last and strongest of the kings of Numenor, believed it was right to rule Middle Earth though. The evil men to the south and east would come under his dominion as their God-King. Barad-Dur would finally be completed, it serving as the citadel from which he would direct his armies of Orcs and Trolls. Yet Gil-Galad and his elven subjects did not submit, and with the aid of a powerful NГєmenГіrean host, his forces were decimated and forced to retreat back to Mordor.From then on Sauron would be the Dark Lord of Mordor. The slaughter was terrible, with the lands west of the Anduin being completely overrun by his hordes of orcs. Furious, Sauron unleashed the armies he had been building in the black land of Mordor, thus initiating the of War of Elves and Sauron. However, the elves deduced his plan immediately and took off the rings.

Yet in secret, he secretly forged a ring through which he could dominate all the others. They crafted the rings of power, desiring to sustain all things. His beautiful visage and cunning performance seduced the Elves of Eregion. After the defeat of his master at the end of the First Age, he hid himself in a dark place in Middle Earth, only to emerge 500 years later as Annatar, supposedly as an emissary of the Valar. The Witch-King of Angmar Sauron was originally a mere servant, the Lieutenant of Morgoth.

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