Battle of Angmar

|width=
|prev=*Battle of AkoshissssThe Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: The Way of the JediStar Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded
*Mission to Jabba's Palace (War of the Ring)
*Raid on Ziro's palace
|conc=
|next=Battle of Behpour
|name=Battle of Angmar
|image=
|conflict=War of the Ring
|date=June 15 - August 27, 1981 3 months after the First Battle of Isengard
|place=Angmar, Arnor, Middle-Earth
|result=*Galactic Republic victory
**The Witch King of Angmar captured
**Arnor liberated from the Confederacy of Independent Systems
*Twi'lek treasure stolen
*Kul Teska escapes with the Gravitic Core
|side1=*Galactic Republic
*Jedi Order
*Gondor
*Rohan
*Twi'lek freedom fighters
|side2=*Confederacy of Independent Systems
*Techno Union
*Mordor
|commanders1=*High General Aragorn
*High General Sam Gamgee
*General Ima-Gun Di†
*General Frodo Baggins
*King Theoden
*Captain Faramir
*Another Jedi Knight 
*General Cham Syndulla
*Admiral Dao†
*Admiral Wullf Yularen
*Commander Eowyn
*Marshal Commander CC-2224
*Commander CT-411
*Commander Eomer
*Captain Breaker 
*Captain CT-7567
*Captain Keeli†
*Sergeant CS-1004
*Sergeant CS-2207
*Resolute naval officerThe Clone Wars Campaign Guide
|commanders2=*The Witch King of Angmar
*Captain Mar Tuuk
*Kul Teska 
*OOM command battle droid 1 (blockade)†
*OOM command battle droid 2 (blockade)
*Commander Rogash†
*OOM command battle droid 2 (Angmar)†
*OOM command battle droid 3 (Angmar)
*6 other OOM command battle droids
*Commander TX-20†
*TA-175
*Battle droid sergeant
|forces1=*6 Jedi
*Clone naval officers
*Clone tank gunners
*Clone troopers
**501st Legion
**Ghost Company
**Lightning Squadron
*195,000 Gondor soldiers
*80,030 Rohirrim cavalry
*Clone trooper pilots
**Blue Squadron
*1 bounty hunter 
*Twi'lek freedom fighters
*435 All Terrain Recon Transports
*1,030 All Terrain Tactical Enforcers
*AV-7 Antivehicle CannonsSeen in the debris on Angmar in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring: Republic Heroes
*BARC speeders
*Blurrgs
*910 LAAT/i gunships
**Crumb Bomber
*At least 1 Nu-class attack shuttle
*2 Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptors
**Frodo Baggins's Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor
**Eowyn's Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor
*750 Starfighter squadrons
**450 V-19 Torrent starfighters
**300 BTL-B Y-wing starfighters
*3 Acclamator-class assault ships
*At least 6 Venator-class Star Destroyers 
**Resolute
**Defender†
**Redeemer†
**Dao's flagship†
|forces2=*1 Skakoan scientist 
*B1-Series battle droids
*116,000 Orcs
*B2 super battle droids
**B2-HA series super battle droids
*192 Mountain Trolls
*BX-series droid commandos
*Chameleon droids
*DSD1 dwarf spider droids
*Droidekas
*IG-100 MagnaGuards
*LM-432 crab droids
*OG-9 homing spider droids
*OOM command battle droids
*Pistoeka sabotage droids
*Sabotage droids
*5 Octuptarra magna tri-droidsStar Wars: The Clone Wars: Incredible Vehicles
*2 T-series tactical droids
*Gutkurrs
*J-10 dual blaster cannons
*13 J-1 proton cannons
*Hyena-class bombers
*43 Rogue-class starfighters
*Single Trooper Aerial Platforms
*552 Warg riders
*1 Telgorn dropship 
**Sleight of Hand 
*770 Vulture droid starfighters
*Armored Assault Tanks
*547 Mumakils
*Multi-Troop Transports
*NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcersSeen in the debris around Resdin in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring: Republic Heroes
*6 Providence-class carrier/destroyers
*8 Recusant-class light destroyers
*Arnor blockade
**1 Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship
***Procurer†
**6 Munificent-class star frigates
***Battlecruiser 17†
***Battlecruiser 19†
|casual1=*Many clone troopers, Many Gondorian soldiers and Rohirrim cavalry
**8 pilots from Blue Squadron
**At least 32 men and 3 AT-TE command crews from Lightning Squadron
*At least 4 AT-TEs
*Many Twi'lek freedom fighters
*4 Venator-class Star Destroyers
**Defender
**Redeemer
*1 Acclamator-class assault ship heavily damaged
*Several starfighters and shuttles
|casual2=*Many battle droids, Orcs, and Trolls
*Procurer
*Munificent-class star frigates
*Droid starfighters
*All proton cannons
*Ground assault vehicles
|civilian=*Several Twi'lek villages bombed
*Much of the native population suffers from starvation}}
The Battle of Angmar took place in 1981 on the land of Eriador of Arnor on the planet of Middle-Earth during the War of the Ring. Seeking to steal the treasures of fellow Separatist Council member Passel Argente while claiming another victory for the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Techno Union Leader Witch-king of Angmar invaded the kingdom of Arnor and executed the subjugation of the Twi'lek and the men of Arnor. The Witch King's forces were met with early resistance from Galactic Republic, Gondor, Rohan military units and Twi'lek resistance fighters led by Jedi General Ima-Gun Di, King Theoden, Captain Faramir and General Cham Syndulla, respectively. With the Confederacy's annihilation of the Republic fleet defending Middle-Earth, supply lines to the planet were severed, leaving the men population without food or medical supplies and the Republic forces stranded without reinforcements. Although Di and his troops were all killed, the Twi'lek freedom fighters and Gondor and Rohan forces were saved by the timely arrival of Republic relief supplies from Toydaria. After being defeated by the Confederacy at Rhudaur, Syndulla led his compatriots into hiding.
Finalizing defenses for his invasion of Arnor, the Witch-king placed Captain Mar Tuuk in command of the Confederate blockade guarding the planet and T-series tactical droid TX-20 in charge of the proton cannons in the city of Rhudaur, while he made headquarters for himself in the conquered capital of Angmar. After receiving pleas for assistance from Ryloth's senator, Orn Free Taa, the Council of Elrond dispatched Jedi General Frodo Baggins and his Padawan, Jedi Commander Eowyn, to eliminate the Mordor blockade and make way for the Free Peoples and clone trooper forces from the Grand Army of the Republic to land on and liberate Arnor. Despite heavy losses to their fleet, Frodo and Eowyn were able to break the blockade, allowing Republic troop transports—commanded by High Jedi Generals Sam Gamgee and Aragorn—to safely enter Eriador. Once Gamgee, Clone Commander CC-2224, King Theoden, and the Republic unit Ghost Company had destroyed Rhudaur's proton cannons, Aragorn was able to land with his transports.
En route to take Angmar, Aragorn, Clone Commanders CT-411, Eomer and Lightning Squadron suffered losses in a battle with Separatist tanks and oliphaunts, leading Aragorn to enlist the help of Syndulla and his freedom fighters. After the Witch-king began a firebombing campaign of the Twi'lek villages, Syndulla finally set aside his previous quarrels with Taa and joined forces with Aragorn and the Republic. Once Aragorn and ARF troopers Razor and Stak were able to activate Angmar's plasma bridge, the only shortcut to the city, the combined forces of Lightning Squadron, Gondor, Rohan and freedom fighters entered the city and routed the Confederacy in what became known as the Battle of Arnor. Witch-king's own tactical droid, TA-175, escaped with the king's shuttle and left him stranded, and Aragorn was able to capture the leader of the Ringwraiths.
Following the liberation of Angmar, Frodo, Theoden and Eowyn were left in command of the operations against the remaining Confederate holdouts on the planet. The two Jedi led the 501st Legion through the capital city of Fornost, gradually clearing out the droid forces that were encamped there. During the conflict, Clone Captain CT-7567 and Clone Sergeant CS-2207 were captured by the bounty hunter Mezmaron, who was on the run after stealing the Gravitic Core, a part of Separatist scientist Kul Teska's newly developed superweapon. The clones were eventually rescued by Frodo and Eowyn, but while trying to escape from Fornost, they and Mezmaron were attacked by Teska himself, who managed to retrieve the Gravitic Core from them.
With the fall of Angmar and the capture of the Witch-king, the Separatist and Mordor forces were defeated on Arnor. Following the campaign, a battalion under the leadership of Clone Captain Howzer remained through the end of the war to aide Twi'lek Resistance General Cham Syndulla with the security of the planet Ryloth. Following the end of the war, the clone trooper forces transitioned to serve the Galactic Empire and occupied the planet, leading Syndulla to launch the Ryloth Insurgency to liberate Ryloth.
==Prelude==
In June 1981, four months into the first year of the War of the Ring, Techno Union Leader Witch-king of Angmar came to distrust fellow Separatist Council member and Corporate Alliance Magistrate Passel Argente. The Witch-king placed a spy droid close to the magistrate with hired assistance from the droid dealer Gha Nachkt, using his agent to track Argente's movements across the galaxy.The War of the Ring: Discount Eventually, Argente arrived in the planet Middle Earth's to the kingdom of Arnor to the frozen land of Angmar, to meet with Artruk, a broker hired to conceal Argente's treasures that had been pilfered from conquered worlds. The Witch-king witnessed the meeting, and seeking to claim Argente's treasures, he ordered that Arnor be moved to top priority for a Separatist invasion.The War of the Ring: Covetous The king's endeavor was supported by the Confederacy, as Angmar's strategic location on the hobbit's homeland of The Shire and its spice trade–garnered wealth proved to be irresistible to the Separatists.Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Official Episode Guide: Season 1
Unbeknownst to Witch-king, Argente's arrival in Angmar was being similarly monitored by Cham Syndulla, a Twi'lek political revolutionary who opposed military interference on Ryloth by both the Confederacy and the Galactic Republic, the latter of which the planet belonged to as a member world. The arrival of Argente, a prominent Confederate councilor, on Middle-Earth indicated to Syndulla that the War of the Ring were inevitably going to reach the Twi'lek movement, and so he moved to prepare his people for a possible invasion without the assistance of the Republic bureaucracy. To that end, he formed the Twi'lek freedom fighters, an organization comprised of Ryloth's natives who were determined to resist foreign oppression.
==The battle==
===The Confederacy's arrival===
====An under-supplied defense====
As Syndulla predicted, a Confederate and Mordor invasion force soon arrived and assaulted Arnor, turning the region and kingdom into a battlefield. Commanded by The Witch-king, the Separatists firstThe War of the Ring: Planets in Peril blockaded Middle-Earth with a fleet of two Munificent-class star frigates and the Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship Procurer. They then landed multiple C-9979 landing craft with battle droid forces aboard, storming population centers on the planet, shattering civilian infrastructure, and burning the Twi'leks' crops. Led by Syndulla, who assumed the rank of general, the freedom fighters resisted the incursion with the aid of Nikto Jedi General Ima-Gun Di, whom the Galactic Senate had sent to aid the rebels, and King Theoden of Rohan, whom Frodo Baggins had sent him to aid the Jedi. Accompanying Di and Theoden were Clone Captain Keeli, Captain Faramir and the clone trooper forces and the Gondorian warriors and soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic under their command.
In spite of Di's assistance and the efforts of a Republic fleet comprised of several Venator-class Star Destroyers that was being led by Admiral Dao, the battle was still heavily weighted in favor of the Confederacy, and the Twi'lek people began to run out of resources such as food and water. Furthermore, the Separatists sent out squadrons of Hyena-class bombers, executing strafing runs on Twi'lek encampments. The Republic's defense forces on the planet were ultimately forced to retreat into Rhudaur in order to provide protection for the families of the Twi'lek resistance. With only three exits, the canyon forced the Confederate forces into a bottleneck while the freedom fighters and clones relied on trench defenses and covering fire from All Terrain Tactical Enforcers to keep the battle droids, Orcs, Mumakil and their Armored Assault Tanks and bombers at bay. As the Twi'lek and the forces of Rohan population reached the point of starvation, the Confederacy pressed their attack against Di, Syndulla, and their forces. The freedom fighters' heavy weapons had been disabled during the course of the battle, and both the Republic clones and Twi'leks were badly in need of nourishment and reinforcements.
During the Confederate push, Di and Syndulla met on the front lines to discuss the status of the conflict. The Jedi agreed with the Twi'lek general's assessment of the situation and so contacted Dao in orbit to request a supply delivery. Despite his loyalty to Di's cause, Dao was unable to provide relief, as his fleet was suffering heavily under an assault by the Confederate blockade and Vulture droid starfighters and was swiftly running out of fuel and munitions. Regardless of the setback, the admiral agreed to contact the Council of Elrond on the Elves capital of Rivendell and inform them of the dire supply shortage. During Dao's communication with the Council, the Confederate fleet disabled his cruiser's reactor, resulting in a gradual failure of other systems and ultimately the destruction of his ship. With Dao's fleet destroyed, all Republic supply lines to Middle-Earth were severed, leaving Di and his men trapped on Arnor.
As lines of Separatist B1 and B2 battle droids pressed their attack on Di's entrenched forces, the Confederate oliphaunts targeted one of the Republic's trench encampments, annihilating all of the supplies there. Though the Republic forces were trapped in the canyon when the right flank collapsed, Syndulla and his subordinate, Gobi Glie, had the refugees prepare to evacuate the battlefield. Unable to use their remaining LAAT/i gunship to evacuate the Twi'lek civilians because of its inadequate size, Di opted to turn the gunship into a bomb to collapse a nearby pass. The Separatists would be forced to engage Di and the clones on a single front, and the clones would hence be able to provide the freedom fighters and their families with cover to escape. While Syndulla, Theoden and Glie began the retreat, Keeli and Faramir's clones and troops moved the gunship into position near the pass and reconfigured its fuel system to serve as an explosive. Sighting the gunship, the Separatist OOM battle droid commander ordered two scouts forward to investigate the craft blocking their path, and it was then that the clones activated the explosives.
With the Twi'leks retreating, Di and Keeli marshaled their forces to provide them with cover and launched an attack on the Separatists. Although their sacrifice resulted in their obliteration by the droids, it was not in vain. The Republic was able to gain permission from King Katuunko of Toydaria to use his planet as a staging ground to deliver supplies to the Twi'lek refugees, and a trio of Pelta-class supply ships were thus able to gain the range necessary to break through the blockade with supplies for the starving civilian population. The Twi'leks finally received their much-needed supplies when the frigates arrived at Rhudaur and sent down escape pods with food and medical supplies. Following the Witch-king's subjugation of Rhudaur, the freedom fighters suffered heavily in a confrontation with the Separatists on the flatlands. The region was severely scarred and cratered in the conflict, and many Confederate and Mordor ships and transports were destroyed. However, Syndulla and Theoden's forces were forced to go into hiding as the orcs continued to hunt them down. The freedom fighters created hideouts within the shells of downed Confederate transports. These bases not only housed soldiers, but refugees as well, providing a safe haven for any Twi'lek who managed to escape capture by the Separatists.The War of the Ring: The Ballad of Cham Syndulla
====The Witch-king's defenses====
As the Confederacy's invasion of Arnor continued, the Twi'leks were forced from their camps and starved. The Confederate and Mordor army, seeking to send a message to Ryloth's governments,Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes: Prima Official Game Guide ravaged the city of Arthedain and its capital Fornost, reducing it to little more than rubble. The message was understood by the nearby frozen capital of Angmar, which submited to the Separatists without any resistance. The Witch-king placed T-series tactical droids in command of Arnor's defenses and gave Captain Mar Tuuk command of the blockade of Middle-Earth while he took up residence in Angmar. Meanwhile, in the city of Rhudaur, Rogash, the commander of the Angmar Troll forces and TX-20, the tactical droid in charge of the town, had the village's Twi'lek prisoners placed near the Separatist J-1 proton cannons, using the hostages as "living shields" to prevent any liberating forces from attacking the guns. The droid also planned to use large gutkurr beasts to defend his droid detachment and had a droid sergeant starve the creatures in cages so as to make them more vicious when released.
The Separatists employed the Twi'leks as living shields at a number of their bases, imprisoning the civilian populace as such; their treatment of Ryloth was meant to serve as an example to Republic worlds of the cost of resisting the Droid Army.Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Heroes and Villains Flip Book However, the Twi'lek child Numa was able to avoid capture by the Separatists in Rhudaur,The War of the Ring: Curfew hiding in the empty town and the tunnels beneath it. Shortly after the Confederate invasion, the Council of Elrond received a plea from the Galactic Senate for assistance. Ryloth's senator, Orn Free Taa, requested that the kingdom of Arnor be freed from the Confederate oppression, and the Jedi Council devised a plan to invade and liberate Arnor and Angmar. Jedi General Frodo Baggins and his Padawan, Jedi Commander Eowyn, would breach the Confederate blockade surrounding Middle-Earth, allowing Jedi Generals Aragorn and Sam Gamgee to land with the invasion force, consisting of several units of clone, Gondor, and Rohan troopers from the Republic's Grand Army. Anticipating a Republic assault, Tuuk dispatched four of his Munificent-class frigates—including Battlecruisers 17 and 19—to wait just outside of Middle-Earth space, a hyperspace jump away from Middle-Earth. Once the Republic arrived, Tuuk planned to lure them into a trap and use his reinforcements to annihilate the incursion forces.
===The Republic assault===
====Breaking the blockade====
The first wave of the Republic assault was led by Frodo, Commander Eowyn, and Admiral Wullf Yularen, who set out with their task force to break Tuuk's blockade of Middle-Earth. Upon emergence from hyperspace, their trio of Venator-class Star Destroyers—the Resolute, Defender, and Redeemer—engaged Tuuk's forces, which consisted of his flagship, the Droid Control Ship Procurer, flanked by two Munificent-class frigates. Eowyn, piloting her Delta-7B interceptor in her first command position, took the V-19 Torrent starfighter unit Blue Squadron into battle against advancing Vulture droid starfighters. With the droid fighters occupied, Eowyn hoped to be able to make a successful attack run on the blockade, and she and clone trooper pilot Axe led their squadron through the thicket of droid starfighters. However, Tuuk soon ordered his nearby reinforcements to join the battle. The four frigates arrived out of hyperspace and engaged the attacking Republic fleet, prompting Yularen and Frodo to order Eowyn back to the cruisers for a retreat. Eowyn, confident in her ability to break the blockade, disobeyed the order and continued toward the enemy, continuing to lose pilots along the way.
When Vulture droids began to break Republic lines, Eowyn acquiesced and attempted to return to the Resolute, but the cruiser was already suffering under repeated impacts from Vulture droids on suicide runs. A single droid fighter slammed into the bridge where Frodo and Yularen stood. Eowyn had lost the majority of her squadron by the time she returned, with only two of the original ten fighters in her squadron—pilots Kickback and SwoopStar Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia—surviving the battle. Yularen was critically injured, the Redeemer was destroyed under increasing fire, and both the Resolute and the Defender were forced to retreat in flames. Having successfully repelled the Republic offensive, Tuuk began preparations for Baggins's inevitable return. The Republic fleet regrouped outside of the combat zone in order to take an accounting of the fallen and tend to the wounded. After consoling a severely dejected Eowyn, Frodo conferred with Generals Aragorn, Eomer and Sam. He delivered the report of their failure, and was given one planetary rotation to breach the blockade, despite only half his original forces remaining.
In an attempt to both bolster Eowyn's confidence and complete his mandate, Frodo devised a plan to ram the heavily damaged Defender into Tuuk's Procurer. Frodo evacuated the Defender, moving all crew and supplies to the Resolute, and he and the astromech droid R2-D2 took control of the Defender, while command of the remaining fleet was given to Eowyn. Frodo piloted the Defender back to the Middle-Earth system and offered himself, the ship, and its crew to Tuuk, in exchange for the passage of food and medical supplies to the human people. Tuuk accepted, eager for the glory that would come with capturing the famed General Baggins. Only after a complete scan of the Defender did Tuuk realize that there was only one life form aboard. As Frodo piloted the Defender full speed at the Procurer, Tuuk ordered the incoming ship destroyed. However, the cruiser could not be stopped, even by the combined firepower of all the ships in the blockade. The Defender smashed directly into the Procurer central sphere, shortly after Frodo and R2-D2 fled in an escape pod. Tuuk escaped his command ship before its destruction, leaving the OOM command battle droids in charge of the remainder of the fleet.
Meanwhile, Eowyn was to command the Resolute and engage the remaining Confederate fleet of six Munificent-class frigates. After conferring with Clone Captain CT-7567, nicknamed "Rex," a navigation officer, and Yularen, Eowyn planned to angle the bottom hull of the Resolute toward the blockade, thereby protecting the bridge and main hangar. This classic Marg Sabl maneuver would draw the frigates in, allowing them to be outflanked by the Resolute bombers. Putting Eowyn's plan into motion, the Resolute returned to the Middle-Earth system and began to move into position. The confused Confederate forces closed in, and Eowyn proceeded to lead a squadron of BTL-B Y-wing starfighters and V-19 Torrent starfighters against the Munificent-class frigates. The Republic fighters managed to eliminate the Confederate blockade shortly before the arrival of Aragorn and Sam's invasion force, consisting of three Acclamator-class assault ships. While Generals Aragorn and Gamgee prepared to land, Baggins's escape pod was retrieved by a Nu-class attack shuttle. Frodo and Eowyn stayed to secure the space around Middle-Earth, and Frodo subsequently disabled several pistoeka sabotage droids.
====Landing in Rhudaur====
As the Republic's ground forces descended upon the kingdom of Eriador, Commander TX-20 opened fire on their transports with the proton cannons placed in the city of Rhudaur. One transport took heavy damage and began to fall from the sky, prompting Aragorn to task Gamgee with capturing the city and destroying the cannons. While Aragorn pulled out of the area to avoid further damage, Gamgee landed in Rhudaur with the Republic unit Ghost Company aboard the Crumb Bomber and other LAAT/i gunships. Although their mission was to retake the city, Ghost Company was forced to limit themselves to blasters and EMP grenades, so as not to destroy the Twi'leks' camps. After utilizing the EMP grenades to take out the droids manning J-10 dual blaster cannons in a bunker on the outskirts of the city, Gamgee and his Rohirrim forces entered the village and set up a temporary camp. With their base established in the city, Marshal Commander CC-2224—nicknamed "Cody"—went to scout ahead with clone troopers Wooley, Waxer, and Boil.
After discovering that the Twi'leks were being held hostage, Cody, Eomer and Wooley returned and reported their findings to Gamgee and Aragorn. However, a recon droid sent by TX-20 was spying on them, and overheard their conference. Soon after, the tactical droid ordered the captured and starved gutkurrs released to destroy the Republic forces. Waxer and Boil, who had meanwhile stumbled across the young Twi'lek girl Numa, were the first to encounter the creatures, and managed to escape into a secret underground passage in Numa's home. Sam and Ghost Company ran into the creatures, but Gamgee managed to lure the gutkurrs into an alley with the Force, and the beasts were trapped after Eomer and his men blasted the bridge above the entrance. Waxer and Boil emerged from the tunnels with Numa, who was able to lead Gamgee to the prisoners. With the hostages in danger, Cody, Eomer and his men went to create a diversion, while Gamgee headed through the tunnels with Waxer and Boil to free the captured Twi'leks.
Once Ghost Company had mounted the diversionary assault on the battle droids, Gamgee and the two clones managed to liberate the Twi'lek hostages, and the freed prisoners escaped into the tunnels. Sam then took control of one of the proton cannons, and with the help of Waxer and Boil, he managed to take out the rest of the cannons. However, a shot from TX-20's Armored Assault Tank blasted the three aside. As the tactical droid aimed his cannon at Gamgee and Numa, the latter of whom had joined the Jedi General on the battlefield, the former Twi'lek hostages attacked the droid and destroyed him in quick succession. With the cannons no longer harassing them, Aragorn's Acclamator-class transports were able to land. After Waxer and Boil said goodbye to Numa, Aragorn's forces headed to the evil fortress of Angmar to take it and free the kingdom of Arnor, while Gamgee headed south to secure Cardolan and the rest of the region's southern hemisphere.
====The road to Angmar====
While attempting to liberate Angmar, Aragorn, Faramir, Clone Commander CT-411, nicknamed "Ponds," and Lightning Squadron took a cliffside path to the city aboard AT-TE walkers. On their journey, they were ambushed by Confederate AATs from a nearby hill, and the tanks disabled the two front walkers. Once this was done, Rogash sought to disable the rear walkers as well, in order to trap the Republic forces on the cliffside and make it easier to eliminate them. However, Aragorn evacuated the disabled lead walker and used the Force to push it over the cliff, allowing Lightning Squadron to move forward and use their AT-RT walkers to attack the Confederate and Mordor forces. Leading the assault, Aragorn, Faramir and Ponds eliminated the droid tanks, and the Republic forces continued toward Angmar. Despite the victory, Aragorn had lost thirty-two men and three AT-TE walker command crews; he would need further help if he was going to complete his mission.
During a conference with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Senator Orn Free Taa, Grand Master Bilbo Baggins, General Frodo, and Admiral Yularen, Frodo reported that the space around Middle-Earth was secure. Gamgee, meanwhile, had taken control of Cardolan, leaving it up to Aragorn to take Angmar. Aragorn sought to acquire aid from the local resistance force led by Cham Syndulla. Despite the objections of Taa on the Republic's political relations with Syndulla, Aragorn believed it to be the only way to liberate the city, as Republic reinforcements were unavailable. Aragorn took two Advanced Recon Force troopers, Razor and Stak, to Weathertop to find the freedom fighters. Noting a Twi'lek graveyard and a squad of droids, Aragorn and the troopers hid in the shadows of an inactive C-9979 landing craft. The Confederate orc patrol was ambushed by the freedom fighters, and Aragorn finally met Syndulla, who expressed his misgivings about helping the Republic. Meanwhile, the Confederate Head of State Saruman the White was not pleased by the Witch-king's failure in maintaining Arnor. Saruman urged the lord of the Nazgul to retreat after stealing whatever treasures remained on Arnor. Saruman also ordered everything to be destroyed—all villages, and even the capital—with the idea of showing the galaxy the "cost" of a Republic victory.
The Witch-king's tactical droid, TA-175, intended to obey Saruman's orders, but Witch-king was not yet ready to leave. The king stayed behind and awaited his treasure-bearing convoys to return, unwilling to leave until every last treasure was his. As the Republic forces came closer to the city, the Confederacy armed Hyena-class bombers to destroy the nearby Twi'lek villages. After the bombers had been launched, Frodo and Eowyn quickly set out in their Delta-7B starfighters with a BTL-B Y-wing starfighter squadron to intercept the bombers. Among the Twi'lek resistance, Aragorn was given a tour of their base, and asked Syndulla to help free Arnor. Syndulla was reluctant, believing that the occupation of the Republic's clone army, following the Confederacy's defeat, would not make Arnor free. Furthermore, Syndulla was a political rival to Senator Taa and did not trust him. However, a Confederate bombing of a Twi'lek village witnessed by Ponds and the rest of Aragorn's forces reminded Syndulla of the death and devastation being wrought on his world, and he agreed to speak with Taa. With the help of Master Aragorn, Syndulla and Taa reached an agreement: Taa would not let an armed occupation befall Ryloth, while Syndulla promised not to seek political power. Syndulla then took his fighters to join with the free peoples army.
====The Witch-king's last moves====
With the Witch-king targeting the innocent Twi'leks, Frodo, a Jedi Knight, and their Y-wing starfighter squadron moved to challenge the Separatist bombers at the Twi'lek settlements. Frodo and his Jedi Knight companion fought through hordes of Hyena-class bombers and ground artillery forces until they reached the first village, where they and their fighters cut through additional Rogue-class starfighters. Frodo and the Jedi Knight successfully pushed the last of the droid starfighters away from another village, securing Arnor's skies and ensuring that the villages remained safe. The Jedi Knight also fought on the Republic's front lines, cutting through assaulting battle droids. As the Republic continued to drive the Separatists back toward Angmar, the Witch-king—at the advice of TA-175—had his forces target yet another village, and the Republic forces quickly moved to secure the settlement. Clone Captain Breaker and the Jedi Knight who had flown with Frodo set up a series of turret defense platforms along the route that the Separatists intended to take through the village; the Republic forces hoped to force the Separatists back to Angmar. With the aid of a BARC speeder clone trooper squad, the Republic battle group was able to repel the Confederacy's B2-HA series super battle droids, OG-9 homing spider droids, and other forces, ensuring the safety of the village.
As the Republic maintained a tenuous grip on Arnor, a Separatist fleet moved in to attempt to blockade the war-torn ancient world. A single Republic Venator-class Star Destroyer stood against the massive invasion armada, comprised of 6 Providence-class carrier/destroyers and 8 Recusant-class light destroyers. Meeting the fleet over Middle-Earth, the Republic Star Destroyer was able to withstand barrages from the flotilla and did significant damage to the invading destroyers, forcing them to flee from Middle-Earth.
====Liberation of Angmar====
There was still the problem of entering the fortress, as a plasma bridge was the only form of access, and its controls were inside the city itself. Furthermore, The Witch-king had ordered the civilians out of the city, employing the use of a "living shield" as tactical droid TX-20 had done earlier. As long-range fire would be impossible without taking innocent lives, Aragorn, Syndulla and their forces were forced to activate the bridge. Noticing several Multi-Troop Transports hauling the last of the king's treasures to him, Aragorn planned to infiltrate the convoys with Stak and Razor. They would only have a few seconds before being detected by the B1 battle droids monitoring the bridge and would need those few seconds to get across to the other side, as the bridge would be deactivated once they were detected. Aragorn and the troopers would reactivate the bridge and allow the Republic forces to cross and take the city.
Aragorn and the troopers attacked one of the two supply transports and stowed away aboard. Halfway across the bridge, they were detected by the battle droids with scanners. The three attacked the droid guards, at which point Syndulla, Faramir and Ponds commenced the attack to gain time and allow the three to cross. However, the Confederacy and Mordor managed to deactivate the bridge before Aragorn and the two clones reached the other side. Aragorn Force-pushed the two ARF troopers across to the other side, while he himself used a hijacked Single Trooper Aerial Platform to get across. Aragorn engaged the droid and orc forces alone, and the two clones fought for the bridge's controls and reactivated the bridge. Syndulla and Faramir led the charge across, and Aragorn proceeded to capture the Witch-king. Battle droids, orcs and BX-series droid commandos attacked Stak and Razor in the control room, but the two managed to fend them off.
The Witch-king prepared to escape in his shuttle, but discovered that TA-175, unwilling to disobey Saruman, had already left without him. Aboard the shuttle, the tactical droid reported The Witch-king's refusal to leave to Saruman. The wizard stated that it was "unfortunate," but ordered the bombers to destroy the fortress, even at the risk of the ringwraith's life. As Aragorn held the Witch-king at lightsaber point, the bombers headed toward the city and prepared to launch their explosives. However, the timely intervention of Frodo and Eowyn in their Delta-7B starfighters and Rohirrim cavalry prevented the Nazgul's fortress from being destroyed. The lord of the Nazgul surrendered to Aragorn and Syndulla, and Arnor's capital was saved. Shortly after the conclusion of the battle in Angmar, the Twi'lek people, the men of Gondor and clone forces held a parade in honor of their victory. Senator Taa, Syndulla, Aragorn, Eomer, Faramir and Ponds watched the procession.
===Final actions===
====Battle through Fornost====
Following the capture of Angmar, Generals Gamgee, Commander Eomer, and Aragorn pulled out of Arnor, leaving Frodo, Theoden, Faramir and Eowyn in command of the Republic forces on the region. Along with the 501st Legion, the two Jedi and two captains were tasked with clearing out the remaining Confederate holdouts, which—despite the capture of the Witch-king and their defeat in the battle—were continuing to resist surrendering to the Republic. The fighting soon began to escalate once more, prompting the Republic to send in reinforcements. During one of the battles against the Confederacy, Frodo, Eowyn, Faramir, and Captain Rex led an assault on the droid forces in the wastes close to the capital city of Fornost. The Jedi themselves infiltrated the Confederate lines, attacking the battle droids and orcs and eventually defeating a large octuptarra magna tri-droid, the last of the droids in the general vicinity. The 501st was then transported to the capital of Fornost, which had been kept under Separatist occupation throughout the Republic's initial invasion and where pockets of droid resistance were still based. Encountering B1, B2, and sabotage droids along the way, Frodo and Eowyn battled their way to the three generators that powered the plasma bridges in the outer sectors and reactivated them. With the bridges enabled, the troop reinforcements and AT-TE walkers were able to move into Fornost.
Entering Fornost, Clone Sergeant CS-1004, nicknamed "Kano," and his squad of troopers found battle droid Outpost Two. Receiving clearance from Frodo to handle the Separatists on its own, the group fought its way through a multitude of battle droids to neutralize the outpost. After eliminating the droids stationed in a large courtyard, Kano, Faramir and his men intercepted a battle droid conversation and discovered that there were a string of outposts in the area. Before they could move on from the courtyard, the squad was pinned down by droid reinforcements that were pouring out of the surrounding buildings. Receiving a distress call from the clones, Eowyn and Frodo set out to rescue them. During their trek to the courtyard, the two Jedi hijacked a pair of STAP speeders and traveled through a canyon while pursued by droid forces. After defeating their attackers, the two disembarked their STAPs and entered the courtyard, repelling the droids that were assaulting Sergeant Kano's squad.
Joining forces with the Jedi, the clone squad left the courtyard in search of the droid outposts. After eliminating a number of them, the Jedi and clones came upon a tower that was being used as a Confederate command post. While crossing a bridge to reach the tower, the Republic force was attacked by Vulture droid starfighters. During one of the droid's attack runs, Sergeant Kano and his men were separated from the Jedi. Despite Eowyn's wish to rescue the troopers, Frodo reminded her of their mission, and the two continued on toward the tower. Defeating several waves of droids, the two eventually succeeded in destroying the tower and returned to aid the clones. After calling for a medical evacuation transport, the clone squad was ferried out of Arnor in a Republic gunship.
====A new threat====
Meanwhile, the bounty hunter Mezmaron had come to Middle-Earth following his hijacking of the core of a newly developed gravity weapon built by the Separatist scientist Kul Teska. Teska himself mounted an assault on the space station Juma 9 to use the station's scanners to search for the Core, which he tracked to Arnor. The Skakoan scientist requested the remaining droid forces on Arnor from Saruman to distract the Republic while he himself retrieved the weapon core. Back in Fornost, Captain Rex and Advanced Recon Commando Sergeant CS-2207, nicknamed "Boomer," went on a night patrol of the city's narrow streets using AT-RT walkers. The two were ambushed repeatedly by battle droids, surviving encounters with droidekas, LM-432 crab droids, and other battle droids. The clones eventually came upon a bend in a canyon and saw a dark figure run out from behind a building—Mezmaron. Upon investigation of the figure, Rex and Boomer came under attack and sent a distress call to Frodo and Eowyn.
The two Jedi rushed to the clone's last known location, jumping from pipes, scaffolding, and rubble to traverse a deep canyon. At the mouth of the canyon, the two were attacked by several IG-100 MagnaGuards. After defeating all of the droids, Frodo and Eowyn continued onward to search for Rex and Boomer. The two clones had been rendered unconscious, cuffed in explosive-wired binders, and taken to an underground hangar by Mezmaron. When Rex and Boomer woke up, the bounty hunter explained his terms to them and forced them to help him fight the approaching battle droids. Unable to refuse his demands, the clones complied, and Mezmaron unlinked their binders. The troopers retrieved their weapons and defended Mezmaron, gradually pushing back the droid forces that were pouring into the hangar. After closing all the hatches and entrances and halting the droids' advance, Rex and Boomer were assaulted by a Vulture droid that had crashed through the hangar door. Mezmaron provided Rex with heavy artillery weaponry, which Rex used to make short work of the starfighter droid. The group continued the fight against Separatist reinforcements of B1, B2, orc, and sabotage droids.
Outside of the hangar, Frodo and Eowyn were still searching for Rex and Boomer. After fighting through numerous battle droids on a cliffside path, the two heard the sounds of battle coming from within a tunnel. Following the sounds into the hangar, they found Mezmaron, Rex, and Boomer battling waves of droids and orcs. Grudgingly deciding to assist the bounty hunter for the sake of the clones, Frodo and Eowyn joined the fight. After Frodo destroyed a tri-droid and ended the Confederacy's advance, Mezmaron opened fire on the Jedi and clones. However, his blaster fire was deflected by Frodo, causing the bounty hunter to lose his balance and fall from his perch atop a platform. Frodo then severed the clone's binders, neutralizing Mezmaron's bargaining chips. The two clones took the bounty hunter's blasters from him. With the hangar about to collapse at any second, Mezmaron offered his Telgorn dropship, the Sleight of Hand, as an escape craft, and the Jedi took him up on his offer. No longer in possession of his weapons, Mezmaron reluctantly agreed to carry the stolen cargo to his ship so that the Jedi could take it to the Republic for investigation.
Rex and Boomer went ahead of the Jedi and Mezmaron to scout out an elevated position from which to provide covering fire and clear out any droids in the area. As the two clones left the hangar, they traveled alongside a path that overlooked Arnor's wastes. After destroying another tri-droid roaming the wastes, the clones were assaulted by waves of battle droids coming down from a nearby hill. Leaving the hill, Rex and Boomer encountered a pair of tri-droids emerging from within a tunnel. Using rocket launchers, the clones destroyed the massive droids and continued on. Meanwhile, Frodo and Eowyn began their trek to the Sleight of Hand with Mezmaron and the Core in tow. The two Jedi protected the bounty hunter from attacking B2, B2, orcs, trolls, destroyer, and chameleon droids while he struggled to haul the Gravitic Core to his ship, periodically taking cover behind crates to rest. While making their way toward the ship, the Jedi's path was blocked by starship rubble. After Rex fired a rocket at it, Frodo, Eowyn, and Bane climbed up the debris. When faced with a gap over a deep canyon that separated them from the Sleight of Hand, Frodo and Eowyn leaped across and used the Force the lower the wing of a downed fighter, allowing Mezmaron to follow.
Taking a cliffside path, the three moved beyond the clones' range and were forced to cope without the troopers' covering fire. Frodo and Eowyn jumped to the ground and eliminated a thicket of B1, DSD1, sabotage, and destroyer droids. After the Jedi had disabled a squad of LM-432 crab droids, the three crossed a chasm by stepping over a destroyed NR-N99 Persuader-class droid tank to the adjacent ridge. Arriving at the Sleight of Hand, Mezmaron retrieved a hidden pistol and prepared to kill the Jedi and take the weapon for himself. However, a nearby pile of rubble exploded. Although Frodo and Eowyn were occupied with levitating the debris, Mezmaron's firing hand was hit by a piece of wreckage before he could take advantage of the Jedi's distraction. Kul Teska himself blasted out of the wreckage and confronted the group. When the scientist attempted to seize the Core with a grappling hook, Frodo used the Force to throw it into Mezmaron's ship.
Eowyn pinned Mezmaron beneath a metal slab, preventing him from running off with his ship. An enraged Teska engaged the Jedi, charging at them using the enhanced abilities of his modified pressure suit and firing volleys of missiles from launchers mounted on his back. After Frodo repeatedly used the Force to redirect his missiles back at him, Teska encased the two Jedi within an energy bubble, incapacitating them. However, before Teska could escape in Mezmaron's ship, Rex and Boomer arrived and confronted Teska until the scientist was eventually forced to issue and ultimatum: either save their Jedi commanders or kill Teska. As the energy bubble began to close in on Frodo and Eowyn, the clones decided to chose to rescue the Jedi. While the clones deactivated the bubble, Teska boarded the Sleight of Hand and escaped with his weapon. Mezmaron also escaped, fleeing Middle-Earth and the Republic forces.
==Legacy==
The battle on Angmar came to a conclusion following the conflict with Teska. Now armed with the knowledge of the Confederacy's new superweapon, Frodo and Eowyn contacted Jedi Grand Master Bilbo Baggins and Generals Aragorn, Gamgee, Gimli, and Legolas on Juma 9. The group was joined by the Jedi Aayla Secura and Luminara Unduli, who had encountered Separatist forces on the world of Alzoc III, where Mezmaron had stolen the Core from Teska. During the holographic transmission, the Jedi received a distress signal from Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo, who was investigating Confederate activity on Behpour, a planet in the Naboo system. Amidala reported that she had been spotted before her connection was severed. The Jedi prepared to lay siege to Teska's facility on Behpour, from which the scientist had harnessed his gravitic beam to collapse the Naboo sun, with the objective of rescuing the senator and destroying the Confederate superweapon.
With a common enemy, Taa and Syndulla had managed to reach a resolution to their long political debate that had lasted for years prior to the War of the Ring. In addition, Separatist Council member the Witch-king of Angmar had been arrested, and Angmar was no longer under Confederate rule. However, Captain Mar Tuuk had escaped, as well as TA-175 and the shuttle containing most of the Confederacy's stolen treasures.
Padmé Amidala later told Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet Commander Technor about Eowyn's maneuver during the campaign.Technor: Alliances During his time as Vice Admiral in the Galactic Empire, Technor employed that very maneuver against species such as the Grysk.Technor: Treason
During the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire, the people of Ryloth—now classified as a protectorate, pillaged for slaves and spice by their Imperial overlords—would remember Windu's exploits during the Battle of Angmar, immortalizing both his and Cham Syndulla's name in songs, where the battle was referred to as "The Hammer of Angmar."
Chopper's Y-wing bomber was later left as a war memorial near the Syndulla residence in the Tann Province.
==Behind the scenes==
The Battle of Angmar was one of the first major battles to be featured in the 2009 The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring television series, as it was spread out over the span of three episodes: "Storm Over Arnor," "Innocents of Arnor" and "Liberty on Angmar." This allowed an array of characters to be featured, expanded upon, and introduced into both the television series and Star Wars canon. "Storm Over Arnor" introduced the battle and the Jedi's "different tasks," while "Innocents of Arnor" portrayed the Republic's landing on Arnor with inspiration from the real-life Normandy "D-day" Landings of World War II, and "Liberty on Angmar" served as the television series' conclusion of the storyline. The capture and subjugation of the Twi'leks in itself was used to portray the greater stakes of war in the series.The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring The Complete Season One The events during the Battle of Angmar were later expanded upon by the 2009 video game Republic Heroes, which took place immediately after "Liberty on Angmar" and documented the involvement of both Mezmaron and Kul Teska in the battle.
In September 2010, a year and a half after its original introduction to the television series, the Battle of Angmar was expanded upon in the series' third season episode "Supply Lines," which served to portray the initial Republic effort that assisted Cham Syndulla in his struggle against the Separatists' subjugation of Arnor. Spring 2011 saw the Battle of Angmar be featured as part of the Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures video game's "Hasbro Biggest Battles" promotion, in which Hasbro codes could be redeemed for exclusive mini-games featuring the battle. That same year, the battle was also featured in the non-canonical video game LEGO Star Wars III: The Lord of the Rings.LEGO Star Wars III: The Lord of the Rings As of the conclusion to the television series' third season, the Battle of Angmar has been ranked by Star Wars Insider as one of the largest engagements seen in the series, with the others being the Battle of Christophsis, the Second Battle of Isengard, and the Battle of Edoras.
The War of the Ring webcomic The Ballad of Cham Syndulla, leading into the episode "Liberty on Angmar," was the only one of the comics leading into the three episodes that featured the actual battle. However, Covetous—leading into "Storm Over Arnor"—portrayed the events directly before the battle, and Curfew took place shortly before the droid invasion of the city of Rhudaur and led into "Innocents of Arnor."
==Appearances==
*Star Wars Battlefront II
*
* 
*
*The War of the Ring: Planets in Peril
*
*The War of the Ring: The Ballad of Cham Syndulla 
*
* 
* 
* 
* 
*
*LEGO Star Wars III: The Lord of the Rings 
*The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring: Republic Heroes
* 
* 
* 
* 
*Lords of the Sith 
* 
* 
* 
* 
*Technor: Alliances 
*Tunes Squad Reborn 
==Sources==
==Notes and references==
Category:War of the Rings battles