He was foiled once more however by the machinations of the Wizard Gandalf and the One Ring remained lost to him. Seizing on this, Sauron released the Stoor under the belief that he might of later use and deployed the Nazgûl to find the Shire to track down the One Ring. Sauron savagely tortured and interrogated the Stoor relentlessly for weeks, receiving only inane babble in return until finally Gollum blurted out two ungarbled words 'Shire' and 'Baggins'. To that end, he deployed numerous spies across Middle-Earth to search for it but the closest he ever came was the capture of an insane, raving Stoor Hobbit, the creature Gollum who had been discovered sneaking about the borders of Mordor and who contained traces of the One Ring's power.
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From there, he accelerated his return, rebuilding his fortress of Barad-dûr, summoning the Nine Nazgûl to his side and breeding countless thousands of foul, dark monsters in Mordor's pits.Īll the while however, Sauron's mind was bent on a single thought: the One Ring, which he needed above all else to restore his full might. After millennia wearing down the Exiles of Númenor and the Elves, in TA 2941 Sauron was driven out of Dol Guldur and returned to Mordor. Sauron was not destroyed, however, and, reduced to a formless phantasm, began plotting his return to power from his stronghold at Dol Guldur. The One Ring had been lost by Isildur in the Gladden Fields following his death. In the advent of the Third Age, the realms of Middle-earth were recovering from the War of the Last Alliance, in which Sauron had been defeated and supposedly destroyed. In the wake of the victory, Aragorn II Elessar was crowned King of Gondor, heralding a final renewal of cooperation between Men, Elves, and Dwarves. The first full-scale battle fought in the war was the First Battle of the Fords of Isen, while the last was the Battle of Bywater, followed shortly afterward by the deaths of Saruman and Gríma Wormtongue. These were primarily waged against Sauron's forces, but Saruman, a third contender, also fielded his own army, which fought battles at the Fords of Isen and Helm's Deep. Following the end of hostilities the final decline of the Elves' power in Middle-earth began, paralleled by the rise of Men in the West, the restoration of the King of Gondor and Arnor, and the start of the Fourth Age.īattles were fought across Middle-earth in Gondor, Rohan, Lothlórien, Mirkwood, at the Lonely Mountain and Dale.
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In the war that ensued, countless thousands of Men, Elves, and Dwarves lost their lives. The war was instigated by Sauron, who had gained back much of his strength since his defeat at the end of the Second Age and who sought the One Ring, the key to regaining his physical form and thus his full power. The war pitted Orcs, trolls, evil mercenaries and creatures, and others against allied forces of Men, Elves, and Dwarves aided by the Istari, Ents, and Great Eagles of the Misty Mountains. Together with the Quest of the Ring, it comprised one of the main overarching plot-lines of The Lord of the Rings saga.
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The War of the Ring was a massive conflict brought by the Dark Lord Sauron upon the Free Peoples of Middle-earth for control of the One Ring and dominion over the entire continent.