The Tower isn't afraid of death in fact, he seems to welcome it as a friend. Talion weakens the Tower by branding him through stealth, and as a last attempt the Tower assumes the form of Ioreth to bait Talion to get closer to him. During their encounter, the Tower teleports across the fortress he resides in, using his power to telepathically tease Talion with the voices of Ioreth and Dirhael, Talion's son. Celebrimbor admits that he can leave Talion to die, but he wanted to help Talion get revenge as his only way of truly passing on to the Halls of Waiting in Valinor is for the One Ring to be destroyed. The Tower reveals that Celebrimbor wasn't forced into bonding with Talion, but he chose to do so. The Tower represents Sauron's cunning and deceit. He isn't seen after the beginning until his battle with Talion. The Tower captures Talion's wife, Ioreth, and holds her still when the Black Hands cuts her throat. The Tower is the second Black Captain and the second-to-final boss. Still, Talion finishes the Hammer by cutting his jugular, and before he bleeds out Talion stabs him in the throat. The Hammer faces death with no hesitation, but he does taunt Talion before his death he asks "How does your vengeance taste, Talion? Is not the Darkness sweet?" This could be foreshadowing Talion's uncertainty in Shadow of War, when he seems on the fence about defeating Sauron or giving up entirely. Before their battle, the Hammer strikes Ratbag the Orc in the head with his mace, and Ratbag's being presumed dead (he is revealed to have survived in Shadow of War) is drive for Talion to face the Hammer in open combat rather than to find a stealth advantage. He is the Black Captain to have a true battle with Talion, and the only way to seriously damage him is by using combat finishers. The Hammer represents Sauron's malice and strength. He's not seen again until the battle at the ruins of the Gorthaur. At the beginning of the story, the Hammer stabs a wound in Talion's hand with the pike of his mace, and then strikes him unconscious. The Hammer is the first Black Captain Talion faces. The Black Captains, unlike some of their Númenórean brothers and sisters, show no signs of even a chance of redemption throughout the story, and even if they had this chance at first, they lost it when they died by Talion's hand. It's unknown how the Black Hand came to be, but it's rumored by some (and hinted at by Celebrimbor) that the Black Hand is Sauron taking physical form. The Tower was a Númenórean tortured and forced into armor that did not grow with him. The Hammer was a Númenórean soldier in the Battle of the Last Alliance who was bound to the Dark Lord Sauron when he tried to claim Sauron's mace. They are the Hammer, the Tower, and the Black Hand each one of them represents a part of Sauron. They are the primary antagonists of Shadow of Mordor. These are the first time the Black Númenóreans were truly seen in any adaption of The Lord of the Rings, as there have been no other representations of them in the past.
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