Middle-earth March - Day 24 Beware, today’s post is spooky! The topic for today’s Middle-earth March contribution suggested by @tolkientribe is “Minas Morgul: The Witch King”. This little fella lives in our Tolkien bookshelves and scares away people who would do harm to our books! So, he is a tolerated roommate of ours. In the books where he comes from originally, he is quite intimidating though – and we wouldn’t want to be in Frodo’s place when he had to face him at Weathertop!
It was originally named Minad Ithil and built by Anarion’s brother, Isildur. It guarded Gondor from evil from the East. After the plague, the population of the city was devastated. Following that, the city was besieged and taken by the Witch King. It was renamed to Minas Morgul, the Tower of Dark Sorcery. It was here that the last king of Gondor died. After the War of the RIng, the city was destroyed by Faramir.
