: : He kept them. Safe. If Sauron had tried to make a second set of
: : Nazgul, no doubt the nazgul would have found out. That would
: : have pissed them off to no end. Sauron then probably would have
: : been dealing with an insurrection. Instead of being his most
: : faithful servants, the nazgul would most likely have become his
: : most bitter enemies (not that they would have united with the
: : west).: I cannot agree with this. Once Sauron took back the Nine Rings he should have been free to do with them as he pleased. There is no indication, however, that he tried to create new Nazgul with them. But Tolkien says the Nine were enslaved to him through their Rings, and their wills were totally subservient to his own.
Perhaps in "making" a second set of Nazgul he would have freed the first from his power. Or, since the Nazgul existed though their master, as such, it may have drained Sauron more extensively to control more then just the original nine.
-RobRoy
