The King's Witch

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g. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, is simply " Wellington").

R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years", entry for the year 3019, March 10, p. But Araphor, the 18-year-old son of Arveleg, came to leadership and, with the help of the ancient elf Círdan of Lindon, repelled the Witch-king’s forces at Fornost and the North Downs. Along the way they captured several spies of Saruman, and found to their delight charts and maps of the Shire. In Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the Witch-king appears as the Ranger Talion's nemesis, much like the wraith Celebrimbor is Sauron's.The year of his coronation the Witch-king sent him a taunting challenge, but Mardil the steward restrained Eärnur from rash action. When Frodo resisted the wraith's approach, and invoked the name of Elbereth, the Witch-king stabbed Frodo in the shoulder. Unlike the novel, the Witch-king does not know of Éowyn's gender when their duel at the Pelennor begins; Éowyn only takes off her helmet right before she deals the final blow, in which a ripple of light flashes in the hollow of his helmet before blasting Éowyn's sword out of her hand. He resumed the pursuit quickly, though, [28] and found that Khamûl had been driven from the Last Bridge by his old enemy Glorfindel.

Also, in that film, there is no mention of Glorfindel's prophecy; there is only a claim among the enemy that "no man can kill" the Witch-king. decapitated the fell beast, but the Witch-king rose and struck her down with his mace, breaking her shield-arm. The phrase Witch-king of Angmar , in full, is only used by Tolkien once – in Appendix B to The Lord of the Rings, in the entry for the year 1409 of the Third Age. Tolkien, as he fancied and studied northern mythologies much more than southern mythologies (Greek, Roman, etc. Although Sauron is the ultimate Evil of the story, he spends the whole time as a big flaming eye in Mordor, so it’s the Witch-king who leads the Dark Lord’s armies in his stead.King Arveleg I was slain and the tower was destroyed, but the coveted palantír escaped in the hands of the surviving men of Arthedain and was brought to Fornost. Like the other Nazgûl, he is depicted as a humanoid figure shrouded in a hooded black robe; his only distinguishing feature is a mask-like spiked helmet with a huge mouth. The Nazgûl is dominating the beast and it’s rearing up in a slightly less natural position to show this. An uneasy peace descended, but the deathless Lord of the Nazgûl could wage his war over hundreds of years.