

Since there are no official visual representations, this presented both a challenge and great opportunity. He reigned there until the end of the First Age, when it was destroyed in the War of Wrath. This is my envisioning of the fortress Angband from the Silmarillion. After three ages of imprisonment, Morgoth returned to Middle-earth and set himself up in Angband, raising the volcanic Thangorodrim over the Fortress as protection. Nonetheless, the Valar's attack succeeded in capturing Melkor and destroying his other stronghold Utumno. Destroyed in FA 587 ( War of Wrath) Angband, also known as the Iron Prison, was the ancient fortress of Melkor in the depths of the Iron Mountains that was built after the destruction of the Two Lamps as an arsenal of Utumno, but later it became the Dark Lord's primary stronghold from which he constantly tried to dominate Arda. Melkor built Angband to guard against a possible attack from Aman by the Valar, and put Sauron in command of it. Fans of Tolkien will be quick to recognize the northeastern part of the map, generally known as the Westlands, encompassing the main theater of both the Hobbit. Angband was destroyed in the War of Wrath. Melkor's Stronghold, Dark Castle, Fortress of DoomĪngband was the ancient fortress of Morgoth, built in the Iron Mountains before the First Age, and from which he tried to subjugate Arda. Angband was a mighty fortified citadel originally constructed by Melkor in the earliest days of the world as an outlying.
