When the Istari and Eldar learned that there was an evil force living in Dol Guldur in Mirkwood about the year TA 1100, some believed that a Nazgûl had returned to haunt the world or that a new evil was emerging, but Gandalf started to worry that Sauron himself might have made a comeback. Both the genesis of evil and its growth and dissemination persisted over the next two centuries. In TA 2063, Gandalf visited Dol Guldur to learn its secret. But when Gandalf arrived, the Necromancer fled, maki ... (Read More)