Posted by Wibstap on May 16, 2000 at 16:22:59
In Reply to: Wraithness posted by Foradan on May 16, 2000 at 05:47:53:
: How common was it? If the Witch King could reduce people to wraiths by stabbing them with a Morgul-knife, there ought to be quite a few of these unfortunate souls around. I wraiths would make excellent spies, makers of mischief and sowers of dread, so you'd think that the WK and Sauron would find it profitable to make as many of them as possible. But maybe they would be so weak that they would falter in the sunlight or stray from their purpose so easily that they would not be much use outside Minas Morgul, and thus we don't see them lurking all over the place? : Persosally I would suggest that it was no easy feat to prepare Morgul-knives. Perhaps such things could only be made by the Nazgul only, or maybe only by the Witch King himself. Perhaps it was only the power of the Rings which made such potent sorcery possible; I imagine that something quite special would have to be behind the weapons which could deny mortals natural death. But what would the knife-made wraiths have been like anyway? Would they have been mortal? What would have happened to the 'souls' of the people thus inflicted? Would all of them have vanished when the Rings passed? : What are your thoughts on this subject?
: -Foradan
Maybe that's the origin of the Barrow-wights? Hillmen reduced to ghosts by the Witch-King?
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