Utumno was destroyed by the Valar and Melkor imprisoned in Valinor for three ages, but on his return to Middle-earth, he took Angband as the seat of his power and raised the. An oversight Incomplete It could be a number of factors that kept it out. Angband was a mighty fortified citadel originally constructed by Melkor in the earliest days of the world as an outlying fortress to his northern stronghold of Utumno. He reigned there until the end of the First Age, when it was destroyed in the War of Wrath. The truth of the matter is that there was no map of Angband in the original publication. From The Atlas of Middle-earth: The location of Angband and Thangorodrim was not shown on the map in The Silmarillion, and originally it was mapped beyond the northern borders, in keeping with the statement that Thangorodrim lay 150 leagues from Menegrothabout 450 milesfar, and yet all too near.5 It was uncertain if this distance were as the crow flies or as the wolf runs. 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. Melkor built Angband to guard against a possible attack from Aman by the Valar, and put Sauron in command of it. Angband was destroyed in the War of Wrath. There are still nameless beings of evil which gnaw on the world far below the surface that the Flood of Beleriand did not eradicate. 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. According to the map below, The ruins of Utumno would most likely be located north of the Shire and North - West of Angmar, but there is probably nothing left.
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