They arrived at Lindon and joined with the folk of Círdan. Eärnil sent his son, Eärnur, north with a great fleet, all that Gondor could spare. Meanwhile, a coalition in the south had formed. The already-diminished North-kingdom ended, and Arnor fell. With him the palantíri were lost forever in the icy seas of Forod. He would not return, for he perished in a shipwreck in 1975. Arvedui held out as best as he might on the North Downs, but at last fled north with the treasured palantíri of Amon Sûl and Annúminas. Fornost Erain fell, and the Witch-king took up residence there in the palace. King Arvedui sent a message to King Eärnil II of Gondor the year before, but help did not arrive in time. His attack was sudden, but not unexpected. In 1974, he felt that his power was sufficiently restored to begin the advance. The Witch-king sent barrow-wights to inhabit the barrows in Tyrn Gorthad. The Great Plague came and went in 1636, taking with it the last of the Dúnedain of Cardolan. The Witch-king sat silent in Carn Dûm, rebuilding his armies and preparing for a final assault on Arthedain, last of the Arnorian kingdoms. Elrond brought an army of Elves from Rivendell and Lothlórien, and the Witch-king was pushed back and subdued. 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. The Witch-king continued to press the men of Arthedain, laying siege to Fornost, and he might have taken over all of Arnor in that one offensive. 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. Cardolan was ravaged and its last prince slain the tower of Amon Sûl, held by the men of Arthedain, was placed under siege. Rhudaur in the east fell first, and most of the Dúnedain there were hunted down and slaughtered by sorcerers. He then struck at a time of great hostility among the three, in 1409. By 1349, the government of Rhudaur was controlled by men secretly in his service, and he secretly aided them in their wars against the other kingdoms.
He played upon their opposition, sending in infiltrators and taking over the hearts of the men of that land. The Witch-king saw the North-kingdom of Arnor as more vulnerable than the South-kingdom of Gondor. They had divided into three kingdoms: Cardolan, Rhudaur and Arthedain, and were constantly at war with one another. In the north, disunity plagued the Dúnedain of Arnor. No one knew that he was actually a servant of the long-dormant Sauron and few that he was a wraith. He summoned men, orcs and other creatures of evil inclination to his banner. His capital was Carn Dûm, on the northernmost peak of the Misty Mountains. 1300 his Nazgûl also reappeared and the Witch-king established his realm, Angmar, in the north. 1050 of the Third Age, Sauron began to rebuild his power in Dol Guldur. 3441, the Nazgûl vanished into the shadows and were not heard of again for a long time. Being the most powerful of the Nazgûl, he became their chief and the most feared servant of his master Sauron. He first appeared in the histories as a Ringwraith in S.A. The one later known as the Witch-king was one of these, probably one of the unnamed three lords of Númenor to take the rings. In the end, they all became the dreadful Ringwraiths. With the power of their rings, the Nine achieved glory and grew wealthy, but they eventually started hating life as they were slowly drawn under Sauron’s dominion. 1697 he gave nine of them to Mannish kings, sorcerers and other warriors. Some time after Sauron seized the Rings of Power in the Sack of Eregion, S.A. A wraith, the Witch-king of Angmar was nearly indestructible, a terrifying warrior, and a cunning strategist. The Witch-king of Angmar was the chief of the Nazgûl, King of Angmar and Sauron's great captain in his wars. ― The Return of the King, " The Siege of Gondor" In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face."
A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. Morgul-knife Black Breath A great black mace Black Captain, Chief of the Nine, Dwimmerlaik
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