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What did the nine achieve?
As a follow up to this question: What did the nine actually achieve for their master during the war of the ring?
The only major thing I can think of is that they killed Theoden. was there anything ...
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What were the other 8 Nazgûl doing while the Witch-king weakened Arnor?
While the Witch-king established Angmar and battled the 3 kingdoms of Arnor, what were the other 8 Nazgûl doing? Were they helping him or did they have other tasks? It seems like they could have been ...
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Witch-king ignoring Frodo's presence in Minas Morgul?
When Mordor's army is marching out of Minas Morgul and Frodo, Sam and Gollum are nearby, The Witch-king stops all of the sudden and starts looking around.
I remember reading somewhere that he indeed ...
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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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The storm of Mordor and the Nazgûl
In The Lord of the Rings, book IV (in The Two Towers), Frodo and Sam encounter a storm coming from the east towards the Emyn Muil. Suddenly, they hear the screech of a – what is presumed to be – ...
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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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Are the 9 Nazgûl rings visible when worn?
We know that the Ring-wraiths themselves are invisible in the flesh:
And they became forever invisible save to him that wore the Ruling Ring, and they entered into the realm of shadows. - The ...
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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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How long does it take to be turned into a Ringwraith?
The nine men that took the Rings of Power from Sauron, turned into Ringwraiths eventually.
How long do you have to have a Ring of Power in order to turn into a wraith?
Sméagol had it for many years ...
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Why did the Ringwraiths wear cloaks?
To my understanding and what the movies seem to portray, the Ringwraiths are invisible to mortal men. This would almost assume that if they were to take off their cloaks they would become invisible.
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What did the rings of the Nazgûl do? [duplicate]
The One Ring can corrupt its wearer and make them invisible (potentially with other powers?), but I'm unsure what the other rings of power could do. Were they only able to make the Nazgûl immortal, or ...
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Why was the realm of shadows impenetrable to vision but not hearing?
Did Tolkien ever explain why those in the realm of shadows (Nazgul, Frodo, Bilbo) were not visible from the normal realm; and yet could hear and be heard (Nazgul could speak to humans, and hear their ...
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What are the differences between the Dead Men of Dunharrow and the Nazgûl?
The Dead Men and the Nazgûl were essentially both "undead" characters. While they were "undead" for various reasons, with the Nazgûl having been semi-resurrected and the Dead Men not properly dead ...
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Would a Nazgûl in possession of the One Ring seek to use it? [duplicate]
All who came to possess the One Ring after Sauron, who possessed ambition for great deeds (basically not hobbits) have sought to master the Ring and use its power to serve their cause. Few, such as ...
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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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