Posted: May 09, 2000 at 22:44:33: by Jim Gregors
: : just below someone mentioned that one of the nazgul (the witch king) could have been a numenorean. Is this true and from where? Would he then have some of the foresight given to that people as well as the other 'gifts' compared to ordinary mortal men? Is that why he was so powerful, or just purely down to his ring???: Three of the Nine were Numenoreans apparently. Probably in the History of ME books somewhere. Khamul the number two was an Easterling. This is only a technicality, but there is no indication that Khamul was actually an Easterling - at least not in a racial or cultural sense (such as the Wain-riders). He is called the 'Black Easterling', but the adjective 'black' could simply describe his evil nature and 'easterling' could refer to his origin somewhere in the East. It is even possible that he was a Numenorean, since the ships of Numenor sailed even to the Gates of Morning in the uttermost East, and during such voyages, they may have established colonies along the eastern coasts of Middle-earth.
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