TOWER OF MINAS MORGUL

Ash nazg gimbatul

Ash nazg thrakatulūk

Agh burzum ishi krimpatul

One Ring to rule them all

One Ring to find them

One Ring to bring them all

And in the Darkness bind them.

NAZGŪL(Black Speech: nazg "ring" + gūl "wraith" )Nine beings, slaves of the Nine Rings and the chief servants of Sauron. Originally men, three of them Black Nśmenóreans, the Nazgūl were each given one of the Nine Rings by Sauron in the Second Age, and, being desirous of power, were easily corrupted. About Second Age 2250 they first appeared as the Nazgūl, beings utterly dependent on Sauron, or, more accurately, on his power acting through the One Ring. When Sauron fell at the end of the Second Age, the Nazgūl were overthrown or went into hiding. They reappeared about Third Age 1300, at which time their chief, the Lord of the Nazgūl, became the Witch King of Angmar. The other eight stayed in the East until about 1640, when the secretly entered Mordor and began to prepare that realm for Sauron, who was in Dol Guldur. In 2000, joined by their Lord, the Nazgūl besieged Minas Ithil, capturing the city and its palintir in 2002. From this time, the Nazgūl were closely associated with Minas Morgul, as Minas Ithil came to be called. In 2951, ten years after its desertion by Sauron, three Nazgūl went to Dol Guldur and stayed there until the War of the Rings.