The
Tolkien Monster Encyclopedia
by Calle Mattsson
This page is devoted to
all
the monsters and races belonging to darkness.
Here you will find Orcs, Goblins, Balrogs
and many more fearsome creatures.
Witch-king
of Angmar
The Witch-king of Angmar is the most
powerful
of the Nazgûl. He was the the one who stabbed Frodo (LotR) with a
Morgul-knife which almost killed the hobbit. After that failure he and
the other ringwraiths were forced to return to Mordor. There the
witch-king
took control of Sauron´s army and launched an attack against
Gondor.
At Pelennor he slew the Lord of Rohan Théoden with his mace. For
that he was challenged by Théoden´s daughter Eowyn which
he
mistook for a man. He proclaimed that no man was fated to kill him and
prepared to attack when Eowyn told him that she was a woman. Eowyn and
the hobbit Meriadoc managed to destroy both him and his winged beast.
The
Witch-king was called dwimmerlaik by Eowyn, which in rohirric
means
"work of necromancy, spectre".