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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Intrope" data-source="post: 1407127" data-attributes="member: 3591">The Nazgul should be the only servants of Sauron that just dropped dead when he did. Most everything else should be alive, unless they were slain in battle or crushed when Barad-dur fell down. Something I don't recall from the books is whether the other holdings of Sauron (the black gate and Minas Morgul) collapsed when the ring fell (they really shouldn't have, since Sauron didn't build either of those, but I think they actually did in the book). The Mouth of Sauron could well be alive, since he was a mortal man. Of course, by 100 FA he'd be wormfood in any case. BTW, you might want to entertain the notion that the Nazgul actually reverted to human form when the One Ring was destroyed (After all, Bilbo--who was older than any other Hobbit ever--didn't drop dead at that moment either), and are now potentially alive (again) and doing who-knows-what. From my understanding, not all of them were originally evil (they were enslaved by their rings first). So, perhaps some ancient Numenorean now walks the earth, confused and bent on revenge (I doubt he'd be sane after that long as a wraith...)You could also take a riff of the Movie and have some Orc Captain make a bid for power to establish the 'Age of Orcs' <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> after all, some of the later-model Orcs were apparently both powerful and relatively smart. Also note that they are very few people in the North these days; and with the passing of the Elves everything East of Bree and West of the Mountains is basically empty (Rivendell was the only inhabitation in that region). An Orc-cheif trying to establish a New Angmar could be a good plot. Also, the Southern part of Mordor isn't a wasteland (unlike the north) and the slaves that tended farmland in that region are freed after the fall of Sauron. Maybe they'll rise to power as well... Hope that helps!</blockquote>

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