Carn Dûm

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Infobox LOTR place
place_name = "Carn Dûm"
place_alias =
place_description= City
place_built= Witch-king of Angmar
place_type = Fortress city
place_realm = Angmar
place_time=
place_lord = Witch-king of Angmar: The chief Ringwraith

In the legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien, Carn Dûm was the capital of the Third Age Kingdom of Angmar, in the north of Middle-earth. The date of the building of the city is not given in the texts, but it is safe to assume that it was built in or around T.A. 1300, the date of the founding of Angmar.

Established near Mount Gundabad, its founder and King was the chief of the Ringwraiths, the Witch-king, making Angmar merely a puppet state of Mordor. Its denizens included fallen Men, Orcs, and other creatures. From here, the Witch-king sent his forces out against the three successor states of Arnor, quickly managing to destroy Rhudaur and later also Cardolan.

Arthedain fell in the Battle of Fornost in T.A. 1974, but the Witch-king was routed by Glorfindel and in T.A. 1975, Angmar itself fell under an assault by the Dúnedain of Gondor, the survivors of Arnor, and Elves of Lindon. Carn Dûm was utterly destroyed, although some Orcs survived there until at least the War of the Dwarves and Orcs and possibly after as well, until they were wiped out by Aragorn, King Elessar of the Reunited Kingdom.