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The Witch-king was originally a human lord but in the Second Age he was given one of nine Rings of Power to help rule over his realm. He and eight others were already in the service of Sauron, the Dark Lord of Mordor. The Rings gave them much power which they used to further their, and their lord Sauron's goals, but eventually the Rings turned them into the Nazgûl.

The Witch-king became the lord of the Wraiths, and Sauron's chief servant. After the Dark Lord's fall, he and the Wraiths disappeared until he reappeared in 1300 of the Third Age in Eriador, where he founded the realm of Angmar. Over the next seven Centuries he assailed the kingdom of Arnor and destroyed its splinter-realms Rhudaur and Cardolan, finally defeating ArthedainIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, Arthedain was one of the three kingdoms of Middle-earth that resulted from the breakup of Arnor during the Third Age. During the reign of Earendur his sons were in open discord, which erupted into civil war after Earendur's d at the Battle of FornostTolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Battle of Fornost was the battle that defeated Angmar. The Battle of Fornost was fought in the year 1975 of the Third Age by an army under Earnur, Crown-Prince of Gondor against Angmar. While the battle wa, although Angmar in turn was destroyed by a (late) army of Elves from LindonIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, Lindon is the land beyond the Ered Luin (Blue Mountains) in the northwest of Middle-earth. It is the westernmost land of the continent. The Gulf of Lune divides it into Forlindon (North Lindon) and Harlindon (South Lindon). and Men from GondorGondor is a fictional location from J. Tolkien's Middle-earth. History Like Arnor to the north, Gondor is a human kingdom founded by the line of Elendil after the Downfall of Numenor. It was located to the south of Rohan and to the west of Mordor, on the.

He fled south, back to Mordor, which by now was inhabited by Sauron's creatures again, and then besieged and took Minas IthilIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, Minas Ithil ("Tower of the Moon" in Sindarin) was Gondor's watchtower in the east as Minas Anor was the watchtower in the west. In the time after the destruction of Numenor, the sons of Elendil, Isildur and Anarion, landed in, renaming it Minas MorgulMinas Morgul ( Elvish: Tower of Dark Sorcery is a fictional city and tower in the story of The Lord of the Rings by J. Its original name was Minas Ithil ("Tower of the Rising Moon" in the Elvish language of Sindarin). It was one of three great cities of t. The Witch-king became its lord. EärnurEarnur is a fictional character from J. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth, the thirty-third and last King of Gondor. He took the throne upon the death of his father Earnil II in T. A 2043, and after his disappearance, the Stewards of Gondor ruled in his, King of Gondor, who had previously routed the Witch-king at Fornost but was unable to slay him (at which point the Ñoldorin Elf-lord Glorfindel prophesied to Eärnur that no man would slay the Witch-king), accepted the Witch-king's challenge (against the advice of the prophecy of Glorfindel) to meet him in single combat in Minas Morgul, and never returned. From that day until the coronation of Elessar hundreds of years later, Gondor was ruled by a Steward, as there was none to claim the kingship.

He led the search for the One Ring, and later Mordor's assault on Minas Tirith. Here he was slain by Théoden's niece Éowyn with the aid of the Hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck, thereby fulfilling the prophecy that no man would slay him. It is important to note that in Tolkien's writings, lowercase man did not refer just to humans but also to adult males of any race.

The Witch-king's true name is never given, and therefore among Tolkien fans, the Witch-king is often simply called Angmar, after the name of the realm he founded and led. Many fans also identify him as one of the three Black Númenóreans under the Nazgûl. In the Middle-earth Role Playing games, he is called Er-Murazor, a Númenórean prince, though this is considered non-canonical as it does not appear outside of the role playing material.