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How did Sauron continue to hold the Nine after he was defeated in the Second Age?
The Nazgûl appeared during the Second Age. Long after that, Númenor was destroyed along with Sauron's physical form, and relatively shortly after that, Sauron was again vanquished by Isildur and his ...
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If somebody stole the nine rings from Sauron, could that person control the Ringwraiths?
This came up in the comments to another question.
According to Letter #246 of J. R. R. Tolkien,
Sauron ... still through their nine rings (which he held) had primary control of their wills. (...
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Could Sauron have created new Ringwraiths?
By the time of the War of the Ring, Sauron had retrieved and now held in his possession the Nine Rings of Men and (at least some of) the Seven Dwarven Rings. Since the Ringwraiths no longer possessed ...
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Why did the Nazgûl not try to reclaim their rings from a weakened Sauron together? [duplicate]
It's mentioned in the Unfinished Tales that
Sauron’s “mightiest servants, the Ring-wraiths, who had no will but
his own, being each utterly subservient to the ring that had enslaved
him, which ...
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Why does Sauron send Grishnákh instead of a Nazgûl to deal with Saruman's Uruk-hai? [duplicate]
This again is another strange decision on Sauron's part. We know from Grishnákh and the fact Legolas killed a Fell-beast that there is at least one Nazgûl on the eastern side of the Anduin, possibly ...
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Were the Nazgûl invisible to Sauron when he did not wear the Ring?
When speaking about the Nazgûl The Silmarillion states:
And they became forever invisible save to him that wore the Ruling Ring, and they entered into the realm of shadows.
Does this mean that they ...
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Do the Ringwraiths love Sauron?
Is it known in canon how the Ringwraiths felt about Sauron? They were his servants and he had complete control over them since he had the nine rings. My question is generally, do they have feelings ...
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Does Frodo believe he can challenge Sauron?
In the Two Towers, when hiding outside Minas Morgul while the Lord of the Nazgul is passing, Frodo has these thoughts:
He knew that the Ring would only betray him, and that he had not, even
if he ...
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How did Sauron remain in control of the Nazgûl?
The One Ring gave Sauron control of the Nine, yet when it was taken from him he still possessed the power to control them (or, at least he regained it towards the end of the third age). Why is this? ...
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