Nazgul

IntroductionThere have been many theories and speculations on the possibilities of who and where Sauron's greatest servants came from.To better understand their origins, we must carefully analyse a specific period in time, and cross-reference it with different sources - trying to build a framework of all the events that occurred at that point in time.That…

The Nazgûl (also known as Ringwraiths, Nunbolg, or Ulairi in Quenya) were the dreaded...

The Nazgûl (from Black Speech nazg, "ring", and gûl, "wraith, spirit", possibly related to gul, "sorcery" or a wordplay on "ghoul" ), also called Ringwraiths, Ring-wraiths, Black Riders, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine, are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine men who succumbed to Sauron's power and attained near-immortality as wraiths, servants bound to the power of the One Ring and completely under the dominion of Sauron. They are first mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, originally published in 1954–1955. The book calls the Nazgûl Sauron's "most terrible servants".

The Nazgûl (Black Speech: Ringwraiths, sometimes written Ring-wraiths), also known as the Nine Riders or Black Riders (or simply the Nine), were Sauron's "most terrible servants" in Middle-earth.