Posted: April 17, 2000 at 10:13:40: by Wibstap
: I've always felt sorry for the Nazgul. While the chief Nazgul is, if memory serves, referred to as having been a great sorcerer, nothing to my knowledge is said about the other eight, except that they were great men in their time. I suspect that in the beginning they were no more evil than anybody else. Their rings corrupted them and made them what they became. They certainly don't stike me as happy puppies. If you think about it, becoming a Nazgul would probably be a fate worse than death. Especially since they likely still remember what they were once, and can never be again. As a theist, I can only hope that there is hope even for one of them, and with their final destruction at the unmaking of the one ring, they can at last be reunited with God. (Or the One, if you prefer Tolkien's terminology.) Certainly whatever enjoyment they got out of their rings must have lasted only a hundred years or so, followed by thousands of years of torment. I would assume, given Sauron's character, that when the Nazgul weren't otherwise engaged, he would amuse himself by forcing them to do really humiliating things. The nature of which we can only guess at.Well, I've read stories on the 'net about the individual Nazgul, but I can't recall the address.
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