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The villagers of the city in the east were surprised of the hooded person standing in the beside their idol in the middle of the city's central square.

Even though not much larger than a normal man he seemed to shed respect and the people only approached him cautiously.

They gathered around the silent figure until one of them had enough courage to draw his sword.

The figure responded by letting his hood down. There was no clear head to be seen underneath, perhaps only a dark outline of a face.

Many of the villagers screamed and the all stepped back. They now noticed that other similar hooded men had entered the village and were now standing around them.

The Nazgul spoke to them. "This is the second time I stand before you, since I left you to seek my own fortune, and found the immortal life in the west. Now I have returned to you, to aide you and encourage you to seek the same. If not for yourselves then for your children or grandchildren, so that your name will live on through history."

The villagers with the sword asked; "and how shall we accomplish that?"

The Nazgul said; "in the west the seapeople keep secrets that provide them with fortune and long life. You go and demand to know them."

Another villager said; "the seapeople are much stronger than us. We went into war against them before, but they destroyed us. We cannot defeat them.

The Nazgul said; "their protectors have left them, and their homeland is gone, for each day they grow weaker, whereas you will grow stronger. We will prepare you, in time you will become stronger than them. There are also divided now, in the south, people who has the blood of the seapeople live. They do not recognize this country called Gondor, as their superiors, but see them as their enemy. They fear nothing why should you?"

In the south, another Nazgul spoke to the people of Umbar. He spoke to them in adunaic.

"Sons of Fuinur and Herumor! Your fathers were merciless murdered either by fire or drowning. These orders were given from the ones that seek to destroy you. Will you not seek revenge?"

However, the people of Umbar were less eager to take up weapons. The city had been in decline for three hundred years and the harbor did not look anything like when the Numenoreans ruled. There were not great ships anymore."

On man said; "these names were given to two of seapeople who must consider traitors to their masters. Maybe they followed you, but they were killed. We do not submit to Gondor, but we want no war with her either."

The Nazgul could not persuade them, instead he said; "then you will suffer when Gondor wage was against you. In time you will learn to serve your right masters, but remember our protection does not come for free."

In Gondor, the fifth wall around Minas Anor was finished. The prince, Earendil was there with his eldest son Anardil to celebrate this. King Cemendur of Gondor was too old to climb the many stairs to the fifth level and stayed in Osgiliath. The wall was named for Earendil and he spoke to the people:

"This wall will not be the last wall of Minas Anor. My son will build the sixth wall of Minas Anor, and I predict that in the lifetime of my newborn grandson, this castle will reach the top of Mindolluin from a seventh wall. This place will never fall into the hands of our enemies. No one will be able to penetrate these great defenses. From here we can see the bonfire in Pelargir should we be attacked from the sea or the bonfire at Amon Din should we be attacked from the north."

Anardil gave his son the name Ostoher, lord of fortress, as he like his father expected his son would finish the construction of Minas Anor.