It's a tragic start to some of Tolkien's vilest creatures.Īt a certain point, a messenger from Mordor also arrives at the Lonely Mountain. They're lords and leaders who are slowly and tortuously perverted into a state of half-death in which their pure function is to do as the Dark Lord bids them. In other words, while we're all used to a conclave of terrifying villains that we just want to see wiped off the face of Middle-earth, the truth is, each of the Black Riders actually starts out as a pretty normal dude. One of their unique ring-bearing skills is that the Ringwraiths can see things "in worlds invisible to mortal men." However, it also explains that often what they see is simply "the phantoms and delusions of Sauron." Eventually, they all cave under the pressure, becoming the dreadful Úlairi in the process. It takes time for all nine men to slowly slip into creepy Nazgûl thralldom, with each one doing so "sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning." During this slip into evil, Sauron appears to poke fun at his new captives/servants. In The Return of the King, the Black Breath is also connected to the strange sickness called the Black Shadow where victims "fell slowly into an ever deeper dream, and then passed to silence and a deadly cold, and so died." These are some fearsome weapons - perfect for Sauron's chief servants. In The Fellowship of the Ring book, Merry first encounters this phenomenon during his visit to Bree when he runs into a Nazgûl and passes out from the overwhelming experience. The other, even worse supernatural weapons is the Black Breath.
In The Return of the King, during the siege of Gondor, it explains that as the riders fly high over Minas Tirith, shrieking and terrifying all below, to their enemies "a blackness came, and they thought no more of war, but only of hiding and of crawling, and of death." The Ringwraiths wield terrifying fear, upsetting people's emotions even from a great distance. Here are our disturbing findings, presented for your spine-chilling entertainment.įor example, there's the simple yet powerfully effective fear factor, a battlefield tactic that would make Joe Rogan proud. So we decided to dig into the background of these mysterious cloaked riders to figure out where they came from, how they operate, and what they were up to before they got tangled up in all of the Lord of the Rings stuff. He developed a background for every single character he invented, including the nine mortal men, doomed to die. Tolkien was hardly known for creating things purely for the sake of moving a story forward. At the end of the day, though, the Black Riders often feel like little more than plot devices. Sure, they're there from day one, hunting the One Ring and flying all over tarnation on their creepy hell-hawks. And yet, for all of the dread and terror - and ear-splitting shrieking - very little is actually revealed about who the Ringwraiths are. The Black Riders are among Tolkien's most fearsome antagonists. Epic warriors like Gandalf, Aragorn, and Éowyn regularly take on a host of baddies that include characters like Saruman, Shelob, and of course, the Nazgûl. Middle-earth has its fair share of heroes and villains.
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