History Fanfic / TheShadowOfAngmar

A ''Literature/HarryPotter'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' crossover by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5291694/Steelbadger Steelbadger]], found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11115934/1/The-Shadow-of-Angmar here.]]

* WizardClassic: Saruman, Alatar and Pallando, with Gandalf also being mentioned - and eventually appearing after the time skip. Harry himself starts to morph into this, albeit a younger looking version, complete with a staff, courtesy of [[spoiler: Saruman]]. When Harry protests, feeling he is unworthy, Saruman simply points out that any man may walk with a staff, but that it takes a Wizard to make it a Wizard's staff. By the end of the TimeSkip, now most of a millennium old, Harry has the demeanour though not the appearance.
* WrongContextMagic: Harry's magic is repeatedly noted to be very, very weird by the standards of Middle-Earth, while Middle-Earth magic is rather strange to him and causes him a great deal of trouble when he has to relearn how to use magic without a wand. However, there is a degree of overlap: his potions can be replicated by the likes of Elrond (but only with great effort), and Harry eventually develops a sense for the inherent magic of Middle-Earth in a way that baffles even elves. Then [[spoiler: he gets a new wand]].

* AdaptationExpansion: The story gives the Dwarves and Elves of the East a far greater role, likewise Scatha and the Blue Wizards. Indeed, of the three Istari who traditionally appear, the only one Harry actually meets onscreen is Saruman, with Gandalf mostly being referred to in passing.

* ColdBloodedTorture: What the Witch-King and his servants perform on Harry, at first, before making him torture and then execute others, in a brutal attempt at corrupting him - early chapters indicate that they were partly successful, though Harry manages to shake it off.

* TheCorrupter: The Witch-King sought to be this to Harry (after he got over his initial fury and realised that Harry could potentially be quite useful), and is indicated to have been slowly succeeding. Harry manages to shake it off after he is freed from captivity, but it takes a while.

* IHaveManyNames: Harry acquires a number, to his mild embarrassment, partly due to the number of cultures he runs into, partly due - in one case - to the lampshaded habit of the Quendi (those elves still living around what used to be Cuivenien) to dole out names like they're going out of style. More notable ones are Id-Ubsat (the Healer) by the dwarves of the East, and the more commonly used Eardstapa (the Wanderer) by the proto-Rohirrim.

* WizardClassic: Saruman, Alatar and Pallando, with Gandalf also being mentioned. Harry himself starts to morph into this, albeit a younger looking version, complete with a staff, courtesy of [[spoiler: Saruman]]. When Harry protests, feeling he is unworthy, Saruman simply points out that any man may walk with a staff, but that it takes a Wizard to make it a Wizard's staff. By the end of the TimeSkip, now most of a millennium old, Harry has the demeanour though not the appearance.

Rather than returning from King's Cross to the final battle with Voldemort, Harry is summoned across the worlds by the Witch-King of Angmar during the fall of Fornost, a little over a thousand years before the War of the Ring. The Witch-King thought he was summoning Morgoth. He is... [[{{Understatement}} displeased.]]

* OutsideContextMagic: Harry's magic is repeatedly noted to be very, very weird by the standards of Middle-Earth, while Middle-Earth magic is rather strange to him and causes him a great deal of trouble when he has to relearn how to use magic without a wand. However, there is a degree of overlap: his potions can be replicated by the likes of Elrond (but only with great effort), and Harry eventually develops a sense for the inherent magic of Middle-Earth in a way that baffles even elves. Then [[spoiler: he gets a new wand]].

* WizardClassic: Saruman, Alatar and Pallando, with Gandalf also being mentioned. Harry himself starts to morph into this, albeit a younger looking version, complete with a staff, courtesy of [[spoiler: Saruman]]. When Harry protests, feeling he is unworthy, Saruman simply points out that any man may walk with a staff, but that it takes a Wizard to make it a Wizard's staff. By the end of the TimeSkip, now most of a millennium old, Harry has the demeanour though not the appearance.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: By the middle of the story, it's not entirely clear what Harry is; while he's still described as a Man by [[spoiler: Ulmo]], he doesn't noticeably age, his endurance is noted early on to be astonishing, and after a couple of decades in Rivendell, he's capable of keeping up with younger elves in practice duels - though he's still slower than they are. As Daewen points out after the 800 year TimeSkip, for someone who spends most of his time insisting that he's 'just' a Man, he comes off as something very different. This, Saruman's recognition that he is a Wizard (even if not one of their order), along with hints of a connection to the Valar (he's capable of some very odd things where their influence lingers), suggests that he's become something like one of the Istari - outwardly human, but subtly ''more'' in every respect.

* FamedInStory: Harry, despite his habit of not telling his own stories and being faintly embarrassed by fame, becomes this, in large part thanks to the poetic/saga singing habits of the proto-Rohirrim. They dub him Eardstapa (the Wanderer), the tale of Fror (who survived the expedition to Moria), and Harry slaying [[spoiler: Scatha]] and going toe to toe with [[spoiler: Witch-King]] in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome]]. It gets to the point where Eorl the Young, who himself grows up into this, is hearing bedtime stories about his heroic deeds.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From the perspective of Sauron's forces, Harry goes from unwanted result of a failed ritual/potentially useful pawn and reliant on {{MacGyver|ing}}ed potions and parlour tricks, to a well-regarded friend of most members of the White Council (particularly Elrond and Saruman), one of the few to have faced Durin's Bane and lived (as a result, it holds a grudge), then the slayer [[spoiler: of Scatha the Worm]], wielder of [[spoiler: Anguirel]] and [[spoiler: a wand whose core is a heart-string of Scatha's]], and one of a very few who's capable of matching the Witch-King of Angmar, [[spoiler:temporarily unhousing him,]] and actually hurting him for the first time in who knows how long.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Sauron, as per usual, being the Witch-King's master, and mentioned by Scatha as 'my Lord's Apprentice', who had told him of Harry's coming, of what Harry was, and 'of what he could have been'. Worryingly, he seems to have a definite interest in Harry.

** In chapter 30, he tries to downplay something he'd just done (create a new [[spoiler: White Tree with a seed of the original]] under Gundabad), pointing out to an entranced Daewen that her ancestral memories of the resemblance to [[spoiler: Telperion, one of the Two Trees]] can't be right - for starters, [[spoiler: this seed came from the child of the other tree]]. This self-depraction, though, is at least partly because he has absolutely no idea how he pulled something that remarkable off, and inwardly speculates that it has something to do with the fact that it's in a cave that's strongly suspected to be where the Fathers of the Dwarves awoke.

* TookALevelInBadass: See FromNobodyToNightmare. Harry gets increasingly formidable as time goes by, though it takes a good long while for him to do so. Early on, he's barely able to get the better of one lesser minion of the Witch-King's, a Black Numenorean at most. A couple of decades later, he's [[spoiler: slaying Scatha the Worm]], and one OffscreenMomentOfAwesome has him challenge [[spoiler: the Witch-King]] and not only survive, but actually hurt him. It's also notable that by the time of the war between Goblins and Dwarves, he speaks with the same kind of authority as an adviser in the court of Thrain as Saruman does in the same capacity at Ironhaunt earlier in the story, acting as a counsellor and power-broker between the various factions, being respected and admired by all of them.

* AdaptationExpansion: The story gives the Dwarves and Elves of the East, a far greater role, likewise Scatha.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's not entirely clear what Harry is, following his arrival in Middle-Earth; while he's still described as a Man by [[spoiler: Mandos]], he doesn't noticeably age, his endurance is noted early on to be astonishing, and after a couple of decades in Rivendell, he's capable of keeping up with (younger, less experienced) elves in practice duels - though he's still slower than they are. This, with the indicated lifespan of a millennium, and Saruman's recognition that he is a wizard, even if not one of their order, suggests that he's become (at least physically) something like one of the Istari, who are outwardly human but with subtly inhuman strength, speed, and endurance.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Harry]], after [[spoiler: fighting Durin's Bane, being offered the opportunity by Mandos, being the first man since Beren to receive it]].

* TheCorrupter: The Witch-King to Harry, at which he was partially successful (though Harry managed to shake it off, given time).

** Chapter 26 repeats this, with Earnur's ill-fated acceptance of single combat with the Witch-King being interrupted by Harry. While Earnur still dies, [[spoiler: Harry's intervention allows his men to recover his body, and his duel with the Witch-King ends up temporarily unhousing the latter, actually hurting him for the first time in a while.]]

* TheDreaded: The Witch-King and Durin's Bane, the former of whom Harry is under no illusions that he could defeat, and the latter of which he escapes largely through a desperate manoeuvre and pure luck, and which he goes to great lengths to avoid wherever possible thereafter.

* FamedInStory: Harry, in large part thanks to the poetic/saga singing habits of the proto-Rohirrim, who dub him Eardstapa (the Wanderer), the tale of Fror (who survived the expedition to Moria), and Harry slaying [[spoiler: Scatha]] and going toe to toe with [[spoiler: Witch-King]] in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome]]. It gets to the point where Eorl the Young, who himself grows up into this, is hearing bedtime stories about his heroic deeds.

* MotiveDecay: Averted, mostly. Harry's primary aim is still to return home to Hogwarts, and his friends, and he worries about how he increasingly has trouble remembering things like the faces of his friends and the sight of the Black Lake under the stars. However, he does become less urgent about it, partly due to the relaxing influence of Rivendell (he spends about 20 years there, and recognising that, plans to avoid spending time there in the future), partly due to having learned the hard way the need for caution.

* WizardClassic: Saruman, Alatar and Pallando, with Gandalf also being mentioned. Harry himself starts to morph into this, albeit a younger looking version, complete with a staff, courtesy of Saruman - who notes when Harry protests that any man may walk with a staff, but that it takes a wizard to make it a wizard's staff.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's not entirely clear what Harry is, following his arrival in Middle-Earth; he doesn't noticeably age, his endurance is noted early on to be astonishing, and after a couple of decades in Rivendell, he's capable of keeping up with (younger, less experienced) elves in practice duels - though he's still slower than they are. This, with the indicated lifespan of a millennium, and Saruman's recognition that he is a wizard, even if not one of their order, suggests that he's become (at least physically) something like one of the Istari, who are outwardly human but with subtly inhuman strength, speed, and endurance.

* CoolSword: Cool, and faintly ominous, in the case of [[spoiler: Anguirel, sister sword of Anglachel, the sword of Turin Turambar]], which is found in [[spoiler: Scatha's hoard, and which Harry uses to cut off Scatha's head]]. [[spoiler: Harry ultimately decides to claim it on the grounds that in his hands, it won't be misused.]]

* CurbstompCushion: Harry's ill-fated expedition with Thorir, Fror and Floi (nephews of Nain, King of Durin's folk), to find out just what happened to Moria. While he - naturally - loses the fight against Durin's Bane, he holds the line long enough for Fror to escape and warn people of just what Durin's Bane is, and manages to escape in such a fashion as to leave the Balrog holding a grudge.

* FamedInStory: Harry, in large part thanks to the poetic/saga singing habits of the proto-Rohirrim, who dub him Eardstapa (the Wanderer), the tale of Fror (who survived the expedition to Moria), and [[spoiler: Harry slaying Scatha and going toe to toe with Witch-King in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome]]. It gets to the point where Eorl the Young, who himself grows up into this, is hearing bedtime stories about his heroic deeds.

* GoodIsNotNice: Saruman, as this is most of a millennium before he performed a FaceHeelTurn. Though brusque and at times impatient, he serves as a mentor to Harry, teaches him some important lessons, and [[spoiler: personally helps craft Harry's metal and stone staff, with Harry being surprised in large part because Saruman doesn't seem the type to get his hands dirty.]]

* IHaveManyNames: Harry acquires a number, to his mild embarrassment, partly due to the number of cultures he runs into, partly due - in one case - to the lampshaded habit of the Quendi (those elves still living around what used to be Cuivenien) to dole out names like they're going out of style. More notable ones are Id-Ubsat (the Healer) by the dwarves of the East, and Eardstapa (the Wanderer) by the proto-Rohirrim.

* WizardClassic: Saruman, Alatar and Pallando, with Gandalf also being mentioned. Harry himself starts to morph into this, albeit a younger looking version, complete with a staff, courtesy of Saruman - who notes when Harry protests that any man may walk with a staff, but that it takes a wizard makes it a wizard's staff.

* TheDreaded: The Witch-King and [[spoiler: Durin's Bane]], the former of whom Harry is under no illusions that he could defeat, and the latter of which he escapes largely through a desperate manoeuvre and pure luck.
* FamedInStory: Harry, in large part thanks to the poetic/saga singing habits of the proto-Rohirrim, who dub him Eardstapa (the Wanderer), the tale of Fror (who survived the expedition to Moria), and [[spoiler: Harry slaying Scatha]]. It gets to the point where Eorl the Young, who himself grows up into this, is hearing bedtime stories about his heroic deeds.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From the perspective of Sauron's forces, Harry goes from unwanted result of a failed ritual/potentially useful pawn and reliant on {{MacGyver|ing}}ed potions and parlour tricks, to a well-regarded friend of most members of the White Council, a student of Saruman, one of the few to have [[spoiler: faced Durin's Bane and lived (as a result, it holds a grudge)]], and then, to become [[spoiler: the slayer of Scatha the Worm]], wielder of [[spoiler: Anguirel]] and [[spoiler: a wand whose core is a heart-string of Scatha's]].
* GoodIsNotNice: Saruman, as this is most of a millennium before he performed a FaceHeelTurn. Though brusque and at times impatient, he serves as a mentor to Harry, and teaches him some important lessons.

* TookALevelInBadass: See FromNobodyToNightmare. Harry gets increasingly formidable as time goes by, though it takes a good long while for him to do so. Early on, he's barely able to get the better of one lesser minion of the Witch-King's, a Black Numenorean at most. A couple of decades later, he's [[spoiler: slaying Scatha the Worm]], and one OffscreenMomentOfAwesome has him challenge [[spoiler: the Witch-King]] and not only survive, but actually hurt him.

* FamedInStory: Harry, in large part thanks to the poetic/saga singing habits of the proto-Rohirrim, who dub him Eardstapa (the Wanderer), the tale of Fror (who survived the expedition to Moria), and [[spoiler: Harry slaying Scatha]].

* TookALevelInBadass: See FromNobodyToNightmare. Harry gets increasingly formidable as time goes by, though it takes a good long while for him to do so.
* UndyingLoyalty: Harry is offered this by a family of proto-Rohirrim after he saves the mother from a poisoned wound following a raid. Since the daughter of that family married Frumgar, and mothered Fram (who in canon slew Scatha), an ancestor of Eorl the Young (first King of Rohan), this leads to Harry accidentally acquiring this from the entire Eotheod, somewhat to his bemusement. [[spoiler: Slaying Scatha only takes it up several notches.]]

A ''Literature/HarryPotter'' and ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' crossover by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5291694/Steelbadger Steelbadger]], found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11115934/1/The-Shadow-of-Angmar here.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: From the perspective of Sauron's forces, Harry goes from unwanted result of a failed ritual/potentially useful pawn and reliant on {{Mac Gyver}}ed potions and parlour tricks, to a well-regarded friend of most members of the White Council, a student of Saruman, one of the few to have [[spoiler: faced Durin's Bane and lived (as a result, it holds a grudge)]], and then, to become [[spoiler: the slayer of Scatha the Worm]], wielder of [[spoiler: Anguirel]] and [[spoiler: a wand whose core is a heart-string of Scatha's]].

A ''Literature/HarryPotter'' and ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' crossover, found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11115934/1/The-Shadow-of-Angmar here.]]