After millennia wearing down the Exiles of Númenor and the Elves, in TA 2942 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 back-up stronghold at Dol Guldur. The One Ring had been lost by Isildur in the River Anduin 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 armies, who 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, Lórien, Mirkwood, at the Lonely Mountain and at Dale. In the war that ensued, countless thousands of Men, Elves, and Dwarves lost their lives, while the geographical wreckage from the conflict at its conclusion reached a scale not seen since the War of Wrath millennia before.
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, Fangorn Forest, 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. 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.
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