LOTR: Beneath the Lidless Eye

In the shadowed fortress of Durthang, deep in northern Mordor, a modern soul awakens in the body of Zagardûr the Iron Shadow, a fourteen-year-old Black Númenórean guardsman of minor blood in TA 2930. Armed with twenty-first-century knowledge of strategy, politics, seduction, and ruthless pragmatism, he begins his ascent through Sauron’s merciless hierarchy not from blind fanaticism, but from cold survival and ambition. Rising through calculated efficiency, brutal victories, and intimate power plays, Zagardûr crushes slave revolts, secures eastern borders, and earns the chilling notice of the Eye itself. Loyal only to the pragmatism that keeps him alive, he climbs toward becoming the most powerful Black Númenórean lieutenant outside the Nazgûl as aruthless governor, dark lover, and architect of Mordor’s expanding empire in the margins of the coming war. A grimdark tale of ambition, conquest, explicit power dynamics, and hedonistic indulgence in the shadow of Barad-dûr. #Harem #Powerfic #AU Writing this for my pure enjoyment and out of boredoom, will be using expanded sources, fan theories like DaC mod for medieval 2 to supplant lore where Tolkien left things ambiguous and scaling the population of the world up, because a continent the size of Europe (that we see) and not even breaking 20 or so million? Over thousands of years. (I know wars, plagues and all that but still)