The Nazgûl (Black speech nazg “ring” and ûl “spirit”; in Quenya Úlairi ) are characters created by J.R.R. Tolkien, present in the Lord of the Rings .

They are nine spectra, servants of the single Anneau, faithful lieutenants and servants more terrifying Sauron. Only two of them were identified and named individually by Tolkien. Their chief was the King-Wizard of Angmar, and its second was Khamûl, the Shade of the East. The Roleplay JRTM, which takes seat on the Earth of the Medium, invented names for Nazgûl, but they are not canonical at all.

Biography

Second Age

In the beginning, Nazgûl were nine men having received each one a Ring to be able during the Second Age. Their Rings enabled them to become powerful characters, but little by little, they fell under the yoke from Sauron and the Single Anneau. “ One by one, one after the other, according to their force first and the good or the evil which had pushed them at the beginning, they became slaves of the ring which they carried and fell under the empire from the Single one, that of Sauron. ” Three of them resulted from the people of Númenor, of which their chief, the King-Wizard. Their first appearance takes place in the neighborhoods of year 2250 of the Second Age. They were dispersed after the first defeat of Sauron into 3434 by the Dernière Alliance of the Elves and the Men, but their survival nevertheless was ensured by the Single Anneau, which was not destroyed.

Third Age

The Wise ones believed that Nazgûl had disappeared with their Master, which was far from being the case. As of the year 1300 of the Third Age, their chief reappeared and founded, in the north of the Eriador, the kingdom of Angmar, which had of another goal only the destruction of the Dúnedain of the north, of which the last remaining kingdom, the Arthedain, was destroyed in 1974. As of the following year, the King-Wizard was overcome by the armies of the Gondor and Círdan at the time of the battle of Fornost, and it was turned over from there to the Mordor, where the power of Sauron did not cease growing. In 2000, the nine Nazgûl besieged Minas Ithil and seized some after a two year old seat. The old gondorienne city became the main home of Nazgûl, a terrifying city which was renamed Minas Morgul.

The War of the Ring

In 3017, shortly after the beginning of the history told in the Lord of the Rings , Sauron sent them to the research of the Single one. Guided by the information extorted from Gollum, the Black Riders entered the Comté on September 23rd, 3018, the very same day where Frodon Sacquet, the carrier of the Ring, left Cul-de-Sac. October 6th, their chief wounded Frodon with the mount Venteux, but they were pushed back by Aragorn and, on October 20th, their mountings were destroyed by the rising of Bruinen started by Elrond, lord of Imladris. They reappeared a little later gone up this time on monstrous winged creatures, and took an active part in the Guerre of the Ring, demoralizing the defenders of the Gondor by their terrifying cries. They took part in the Bataille of the Fields of Pelennor, where their chief was killed by Éowyn, then were destroyed when Single the chut in the blazing inferno of the Montagne of the Destiny, on March 25th, 3019:

And in the middle of the storm, with a cry which bored all other sounds, tearing the clouds, spouted out Nazgûl, such of the ignited features, like, taken in the set ablaze ruin of the mountain and of the sky, they craquetaient, were desiccated and died out| the Lord of the Rings , delivers VI, chapter 3

Interpretation

One could see in their creation the will of Tolkien to make revive, by metaphor, the planes and other missiles which bombarded London at the time of the Blitz, in particular the Stukas which were recognized thanks to their sirêne, having the same effect on the populations as the cries of flying Nzagûl.

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