thx, i really notice i am not a native speaker, i should certainly change those expressions...
I revised the middle part with Sauron as the main protagonist:
==Of the Years of the Dark Kings and the Rings of Power==
In those years, when the Shadow lengthened in the East, the [[Meneltarma]] stood yet unmarred above the waters of Númenor; and from its holy summit the winds came out of the West, bearing tidings that were received in silence in the halls of the Kings. Of what was perceived from that height looking eastward, little was spoken by men; for only from above could the full, terrible breadth of the work be discerned which [[Zigurûn]] set in motion within the land of Mordor.
It came to pass in the year 1600 of the Second Age that the wide sea grew restless as the [[One Ring]] was forged. In that same hour, there landed at the Grey Havens in the West the [[Ithryn Luin]], the Blue Wizards, who were sent from the Valar. [[Morinehtar]] and [[Rómestámo]] they were named by [[Círdan the Shipwright]], and with them came [[Glorfindel]], the mighty warrior, as a shield against the gathering storm. Yet before the envoys could journey into the East and South, war broke out across Eriador. [[Celebrimbor]] of Eregion, the grandson of Fëanor, died a death of torment by the tortures of the Dark Lord, and Sauron erbeuted the Nine Rings of Men and those six of the Seven that were destined for the Dwarven-lords; for the first of the seven rings had already been received by Durin III of [[Khazad-dûm]] from the hands of Celebrimbor himself in friendship.
Straightway the Ithryn Luin departed to sow the seeds of defiance in the distant lands, while Glorfindel remained in the West. Zigurûn, however, withdrew to [[Barad-dûr]], and his mind was set upon binding the rulers of the Dwarves to his will first of all.
The Rings of the Dwarves
Thus Zigurûn distributed chronologically first those six rings which he had intended for the Fathers of the [[Dwarves]]. He made his beginning in the East, where the [[Ring of Guile]] was openly brought to the Dwarven-king [[Darsha]] of the [[Ironfists]] by ambassadors out of Mordor, though its true maker was not revealed to him. In ignorance Darsha accepted the gift and used its power to remake his people's culture industrial and practical, leaving aside the old contemplations. Over this a bitter strife arose between Darsha and his brother [[Wansâ-Ishâ]]. Words became bitter and war followed beneath the mountains, in which Wansâ-Ishâ fell.
Thereafter [[Brûni of the Broadbeams|Brûni]] of the [[Broadbeams]] received in secret the [[Ring of Artifice]], granted by the Lord of Gifts in the guise of friendship, and he passed it down to his heirs. To [[Balli]], the king of the [[Blacklocks]], whose folk traced their line to the ancient wanderers of the Southern Dark Mountains, the fourth ring was given far beyond the red and dark mountains of [[Rhûn]]. The fifth ring, named [[Tulya]] or the [[Ring of Accretion]], was received by [[Malln IV]], King of the [[Stonefoots]], from disguised ambassadors of Sauron, whereby the wealth of his mountains grew beyond measure.
Afterward the [[Firebeards]], heeding the call of Durin's folk, spread into southern [[Eriador]] and made close kinship with the Longbeards of Khazad-dûm; and to [[Dwári]], the scion of [[Úri]]'s house among the Firebeards, the [[Ring of Temerity]] was entrusted. Lastly, [[Reimôkângsâ]] the Runecarver, who ruled over the [[Stiffbeards]], received the sixth of the remaining Dwarven-rings.
Yet though these seven rings were spent upon the seven fathers, Zigurûn's work failed utterly. The Dwarves could not be subdued to the will of the One Ring, nor were they turned into wraiths. They grew only avaricious, and in their greed they closed the gates of their mountains, as did Durin the Fourth when Eregion was laid waste. They hoarded gold and iron and became estranged from the peoples around them, but not one of them came to Mordor to serve. This was Zigurûn's single, complete failure in those centuries.
===The Nine Paths===
When Zigurûn perceived that the Dwarves defied him, he turned his gaze to the mortal kings, whose mortality was his greatest weapon. To an immortal, five hundred years were but the passing of a summer, yet to mortal men it was the span of five generations, and even for the long-lived Kings of Númenor it measured two to three long lifetimes. While throughout these centuries the tale of the Dwarven-rings continued through the generations, the net began to click around Men at that same time, and the Nine Paths opened.
[[Mûrazôr]], [[Adûnabêth]], and [[Khôrahil]], lords of Númenor's distant colonies, began to feel the stirrings of envy and desire within their hearts. For though they had conquered the shores of Middle-earth and held sway over men and lands, there yet remained a longing unfulfilled, a hunger for dominion and renown beyond the mortal measure.
===The Legend of Er-Mûrazôr the Númenórean===
[[Er-Mûrazôr]], called by men the [[Witch-king]] and the [[Lord of Morgul]], was born in the year 1,820 of the Second Age at [[Andúnië]] in [[Andustar]], second son of [[Tar-Ciryatan]] the High King of Númenor. His heart was dark, and ambition dwelt therein more than in any of his kin; and from his youth he coveted dominion beyond the seas. Jealous of his elder brother, he took ship in the year 1,880 and sailed westward to Middle-earth, where he sought kingdoms to rule.
He spoke in secret to the [[merchant]]s and [[captain]]s of the southern bays, weaving promises of wealth and terror. And the folk of the coasts feared him, calling him "the Shadow of the Waves," for his words carried both charm and doom. Yet his father recalled him, and he turned aside, finding shelter in the shadow of [[Mordor]], where the Dark Lord Zigurûn took him as pupil. In the long years of [[apprentice]]ship, Mûrazôr learned the arts of [[enchantment]] and [[sorcery]], and he received from Sauron a [[Ring of Power]], whereby his spirit was wholly bound to the will of the Dark. Thus he became the first of the Nine, and among them the mightiest, a terror to Men and a scourge upon Númenórean dominions.
===The Birth and Rise of Khôrahil===
Khôrahil, later the Fifth of the Nine, was born at a manor overlooking the waters of [[Nisinen]] in Númenor. His father, [[Balkûzimran]], was a kinsman of the house of King Ciryatan, and Khôrahil inherited both the brilliance and the pride of that line. From youth he displayed an uncommon mind, yet it was marred by covetousness and a lust for power.
When his father founded the realm of [[An-Balkûmagân]] upon the northern flank of the [[Grey Mountains of Harad]], Khôrahil came into a land of promise. Yet ambition gnawed at him, and he sought power beyond the natural sight of men. In a dark covenant with a [[nameless sorcerer]], he exchanged his eyes for two great [[gem]]s, the [[Eyes of the Well]], and thus became blind to the world, yet able to perceive all things by sorcery. By this craft he seized the throne from his father, who perished in despair, and proclaimed himself [[Storm-King]], lord over An-Balkûmagân.
A man who has already made one exchange of the self for power has established a habit. The second exchange is easier than the first. Khôrahil waged war upon the lands of [[Kharâd Ephalâk]], conquering [[Khenakattûr]], [[Hisrâyâ]], and [[Kêrum-latharân]], and claiming the western shores of the [[Bay of Ormal|Asâd-armalnâ]]. Yet even as he grew mighty the emissaries of Mordor came bearing their offer, and the Blind Sorcerer, seduced by the promise of greater power, yielded to Zigurûn, and in the year S.A. 2,000 received a Ring of Power. Thus was he bound irrevocably to the Dark Lord, and became the Fifth of the Nazgûl, ensnared in shadow yet exalted in dread.
===The Quiet Avenger===
Adûnabêth, later called [[Adûnaphel]], was born in the northern lands of [[Forostar]], at the city of [[Bar Forowing]], scion of the noble house of [[Adûnazil]]. His father, [[Adûnahil]], and mother, [[Alglarêth]], had raised him in a household of grandeur and restraint, yet fate had decreed that sorrow would shadow his youth. His father fell to the treachery of his uncle Adûnazil, a deed that would cast the first shadow upon Adûnabêth's heart and mark the beginning of his long journey into the Shadow. From his earliest years he felt constrained by the customs of Númenor, wherein women and men alike were bound by the rigid [[hierarchy]] of house and station.
Finding no path to sovereignty within Númenor, Adûnabêth sailed eastward. Landing with his [[retainer]]s at the haven of [[Umbar|Um]], he settled at [[Wahâmaghû]] on the northwestern tip of the peninsula. There he built a citadel and began to shape a realm of his own, learning swiftly to govern both Númenórean settlers and the [[Khârai]] tribes. His subtlety and patience won him respect and obedience, and over the decades his influence stretched along the coast from Um to the [[Kharadnin]].
Yet he never forgot the humiliation wrought by his uncle nor the grief of his lost father. When the truth of Adûnahil's murder was revealed, Adûnabêth struck decisively, killing his uncle and exacting vengeance — and found, as men always find, that vengeance did not close the wound it was meant to close. Zigurûn discerned the restless heart of Adûnabêth and offered him not power but recognition: the acknowledgment of what he was beneath the forms he had learned to wear. Thirsting for recognition and authority, Adûnabêth accepted the Ring of Power. Thereafter he became the seventh of the Nazgûl, the servant of the Dark Lord in the southern lands of Middle-earth. Of all the nine he walked most quietly into the dark — because Zigurûn had made the dark indistinguishable from what Adûnabêth had always wanted the world to be.
