The Great Plague
the deadly wasting that emptied the lands of the Third Age
The Plague
The Great Plague was the terrible pestilence that came out of the East (the Shadow spilled from Mordor) in T.A. 1636: it swept the lands, emptied the cities and the villages, slew the king of Gondor and his sons, and passed north to the Shire, where the weather-diminished hobbits of the empty villages were taken by the wasting.
Its Cost
The loss of the population and the hurt of the far-stretched lands weakened Gondor for long ages, and the memories of the great dying were laid up in the annals of the North and the old songs.
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