History Characters / MiddleEarthShadowOfMordorAntagonists

* BigBadEnsemble: With Shelob, Zog the Eternal and Celebrimbor for ''Shadow of War''.

* BigBadEnsemble: With Sauron, Shelob and Celebrimbor for ''Shadow of War''.

** [[spoiler:PlayedWith in ''Shadow of War''. He is the final major storyline opponent you fight, but you still have to survive five fortress defenses after defeating him.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: With Shelob, Zog the Eternal and [[spoiler:Celebrimbor]] for ''Shadow of War''.

* BigBadEnsemble: With Sauron, Shelob and [[spoiler:Celebrimbor]] for ''Shadow of War''.

* BigBadEnsemble: With Shelob, Zog the Eternal and [[spoiler:Celebrimbor for ''Shadow of War''.]]

* DualBoss: Baz and Gaz will likely show up to fight you at the same time.

!!Nemesis Orcs

The officers of Orc society, from Captains all the way to the Overlord. Aside from names and fancy titles, these orcs have a number of strengths that make them much, much more dangerous than your rank-and-file grunts. However, they also have weaknesses you can exploit to great effect.

* TragicMonster: Sauron deceived them into becoming monsters. None of them asked to become what they are now.

* GenderFlip: In the books, there is no mention of any queens among the fallen kings of men that fell to Sauron's corruption though this is slightly justified as they aren't one of the nine original Nazful.

* GenderFlip: In the books, there is no mention of any queens among the fallen kings of men that fell to Sauron's corruption.

* GangUpOnTheHuman: Literally. If Talion interupts a conflict between two Uruks, they'll both drop the issue until one of them (or Tallion) is dead or flees. Some of them even lampshade the fact, telling Tallion he should have waited until the duel was over to strike.

The namesake of Helm's Deep and the ninth king of Rohan. After he refused to let the Siric marry his daughter Bernwyn, Helm was fatally injured in an assassination attempt by Siric and his men, who also kidnapped his daughter. On his deathbed at Edoras, Helm was visited by Sauron and Celebrimbor who offered him a ring as a way to rescue his daughter and exact revenge on the man who took her. [[DealWithTheDevil He accepted.]] After his recovery, he stormed Siric's castle with some of his own men, but in his rage he missed the killing blow and accidentally struck his own daughter dead. Furious about what had happened, Helm slaughtered everyone in the room, ''including his own men''.

* CompositeCharacter: Suladân was a minor character in the Middle-earth strategy board game; here, he's also given a backstory similar to King Ar-Pharazôn from Literature/TheSilmarillion as a king who defeated Sauron militarily onto to fall under his influence while the Dark Lord served as his captive and advisor.

* GenderFlip: In the books, there is no mention of any queens among the fallen kings of men that fell to Sauron's corruption.

** This is also {{inverted|Trope}}, as other orcs sport [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing Nicknames]] like [[DirtyCoward the Coward]], Who Flees, the Weak, and so forth. These can become {{ Ironic Nickname}}s if Talion manages to die to them a lot, as they'll gain a level up every time they beat him (or at least survive an encounter).

** Bodyguards can be made to turn on their Warchiefs, but don't do so on their own.

* GangUpOnTheHuman: Literally. If Tallion interupts a conflict between two Uruks, they'll both drop the issue until one of them (or Tallion) is dead or flees. Some of them even lampshade the fact, telling Tallion he should have waited until the duel was over to strije.

** Nemeses that survive multiple encounters with Tallion tend to be this, since the only way to do that consistently is to beat him down every time he shows up.

** This is also {{inverted|Trope}}, as other orcs sport [[EmbarrassingNickname Embarrassing Nicknames]] like [[DirtyCoward the Coward]], Who Flees, the Weak, and so forth.

* WasOnceAMan: As is the case with all Nazgûl, he was once a human before being corrupted by one of the Nine Rings of Power.

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The namesake of Helm's Deep and the ninth king of Rohan. After he refused to let Prince Siric of Dunland marry his daughter, Helm was fatally injured in an assassination attempt by Siric and his men, who also kidnapped his daughter. On his deathbed at Edoras, Helm was visited by Sauron and Celebrimbor who offered him a ring as a way to rescue his daughter and exact revenge on the man who took her. [[DealWithTheDevil He accepted.]] After his recovery, he stormed Siric's castle with some of his own men, but in his rage he missed the killing blow and accidentally struck his own daughter dead. Furious about what had happened, Helm slaughtered everyone in the room, ''including his own men''.

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: [[spoiler:The influence of the Ring of Power that saved his life after an attempted assassination exacerbated his [[BloodKnight rage and bloodlust]] during his [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge attempt to rescue his daughter]] to the point that he [[AccidentalMurder accidentally murdered her]], then in grief he killed her Dunlending husband and even [[BadBoss his own captains when they tried to stop him]].]]

* TragicVillain: Said to be one by Celebrimbor and confirmed by the flashback that Talion sees during his final encounter with him. Specifically, [[spoiler:his daughter was kidnapped by a Dunlending rival who wanted to marry her and become king, and Helm himself was ambushed and fatally wounded. On his deathbed, Sauron and Celebrimbor visited him and gifted him a ring of power, which restored him and enabled him to launch a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Unfortunately, Hammerhand eventually became so corrupted that he ended up killing his own daughter when she tried to stop him from getting at his rival.]]
* UnwantedRescue: It's strongly implied his daughter was in love with the man who "kidnapped" her.
* VillainHasAPoint: He's only a villain in light that he's a Nazgûl, but back when he went after the man who took his daughter, he had a compelling argument for pursuing war with the Dunlendings: If they wanted peace, they really shouldn't have attempted to ''murder'' him in the first place.

--->'''Rogue Nazgûl''': The Dark Lord and the Ringmaker burn atop Barad-dûr. The Witch-king is diminished. ''We are ascendant''!

* CompositeCharacter: The original lore ''does'' state that after his death, there quickly rose legends of him becoming an undead wraith who continued to protect Rohan against its foes[[note]]Helm froze to death during an overnight solo raid, and the next morning, his frozen corpse was found [[DiedStandingUp on its feet]] with [[DiesWideOpen its eyes still open]][[/note]]. The game fuses this with him being one of the Nazgûl.