Dark Powers

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Dark Powers of the First Age 2.1 Dark Lord 2.2 Lieutenant 2.3 General 2.4 Officers 2.5 Fighters 3 Dark Powers of the Second Age 3.1 Dark Lord 3.2 Lieutenant 3.3 Officers 3.4 Fighters 4 Dark Powers of the Third Age 4.1 Dark Lord 4.2 Lieutenant 4.3 General 4.4 Officers 4.5 Fighters 4.6 Unaligned 5 Dark Powers of the Fourth Age 6 Realms 7 References

[edit] Summary

The Dark Powers are an order of fallen Ainur founded and led by the Dark Lord Melkor that went with him when he descended to Arda with the Valar. The number of Dark Powers changes during the first, second, and third ages of the Sun.

[edit] Dark Powers of the First Age

[edit] Dark Lord

• Melkor

[edit] Lieutenant

• Sauron

[edit] General

• Gothmog

[edit] Officers

• Ungoliant
• Glaurung
• Carcharoth
• Ancalagon The Black
• Lorgan
• Lungothrin
• Draugluin
• Thuringwethil

[edit] Fighters

• Orcs
• Trolls
• Balrogs
• Dragons
• Easterlings (First Age)

[edit] Dark Powers of the Second Age

[edit] Dark Lord

• Sauron

[edit] Lieutenant

• The Witch King of Angmar

[edit] Officers

• The Ringwraiths

[edit] Fighters

• Orcs
• Black Númenóreans
• Haradrim
• Easterlings

[edit] Dark Powers of the Third Age

[edit] Dark Lord

• Sauron

[edit] Lieutenant

• The Witch-king of Angmar

[edit] General

• The Mouth of Sauron

[edit] Officers

• The Ringwraiths
• Saruman
• Gothmog (Lieutenant of Morgul)
• Grima Wormtongue

[edit] Fighters

• Orcs
• Trolls
• Uruk-hai
• Wargs
• Warg-Riders
• Easterlings
• Haradrim
• Black Númenóreans

[edit] Unaligned

• Durin's Bane
• Shelob
• Watcher in the Water
• Wicked, Wild, and Wrath
• Scatha
• Smaug

[edit] Dark Powers of the Fourth Age

• Unknown, possibly a cult worshiping the dark powers.^[1]

[edit] Realms

• Dor Daedeloth
• Angband
• Utumno
• Thangorodrim
• Ered Gorgoroth
• Nan Dungortheb
• Mordor
• Moria
• Isengard

[edit] References

1. ↑ The Peoples of Middle-earth: The New Shadow