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swords. She notes that only a person in a body can wield the One Ring, so the invisibility is just "a trick of sight". When Frodo, wearing the Ring, saw the Nazgûl in the "twilight world", they appeared solid, not shadowy. He also saw
Glorfindel in that world, as a figure of white flame; and Gandalf explains later that the Ringwraiths were "dismayed" to see "an Elf-lord revealed in his wrath". Frodo is in danger of "fading" permanently into invisibility and the twilight world, as the Ringwraiths have done, living "in another mode of reality". She writes, too, that Merry's sword, with the special power to sever the Witch-king's "undead flesh" and in particular to overcome the "spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will", has in fact to cut through real, but invisible, sinews and flesh.
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677:, with no link to Sauron. However, Tolkien was at the time starting to consider the true nature of the Ring, and the idea that it had been made by the Necromancer, and drew itself or its bearer back to him. The Black Riders became Ringwraiths when the hobbit, at that time called Bingo rather than Frodo, discussed the Riders with the Elf Gildor, later in the same chapter. Over the next three years, Tolkien gradually developed the connections between the Nazgûl, the One Ring, Sauron, and all the other Rings of Power. The pieces finally all came together when Tolkien wrote "The Mirror of Galadriel", some hundreds of pages later, around the autumn of 1941.
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they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men; but too often they beheld only the phantoms and delusions of Sauron. And one by one, sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning, they fell under the thraldom of the ring that they bore and of the domination of the One which was Sauron's. And they became forever invisible save to him that wore the Ruling Ring, and they entered into the realm of shadows. The Nazgûl were they, the
Ringwraiths, the Úlairi, the Enemy's most terrible servants; darkness went with them, and they cried with the voices of death.
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699:) in the story. At one level, they serve simply as story elements, dangerous opponents. But, Shippey notes, the level rises from the romantic, with heroes taking on the Black Riders, to the mythic, giving as example the assault of Minas Tirith. The leader of the Nazgûl directs the attack on the Great Gate; he bursts the gate using both the battering-ram Grond, written with "
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diabolical", rather than developing their character. Walker sees this as appropriate in psychological terms: the Nazgûl's main weapons are psychological, namely fear and despair. He writes that the progressive revelation of their capabilities, and their "escalation of steeds" from horses to fell beasts, builds up in the reader's mind an "increasingly infernal vision".
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1213:, the Nazgûl are almost always concealed by cloaks; they attack the inn at Bree themselves. During the siege of Minas Tirith, the Witch-king wears a distinctive helmet over his hood resembling a mask and a crown, rather than the crown worn underneath his hood in the book. Their shrieks are distorted recordings of producer and screenwriter
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that the Nazgûl were contaminated and enslaved by a monstrous form of radioactivity which transformed "the very cells of their protoplasm". They thereby became radioactive and "immune to radiation poisoning, as is shown by their dwelling in the blasted tower of Minas Ithil ." Further, Bradley writes,
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Victoria Wodzak discuss how the hobbit Merry Brandybuck can be affected by the Black Breath when the Witch-King has not noticed him, pointing out that Tolkien nowhere says that the Nazgûl breathes on him or on Éowyn. Instead Éowyn "raised her shield against the horror of her enemy's eye",
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Company" was originally Gandalf; in 1938, Tolkien called the figure's transformation into a Black Rider "an unpremeditated turn". Frodo's ring, too, was simply a magic ring conferring invisibility,
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The Nazgûl came again ... like vultures that expect their fill of doomed men's flesh. Out of sight and shot they flew, and yet were ever present, and their deadly voices rent the air. More unbearable they became, not less, at each new cry. At length even the stout-hearted would fling themselves to
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Tolkien's evil Ringwraiths and performed by Ms. Walsh. "I'm a very good screamer", she said by telephone. "It's not that I
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Ringwraiths wore their rings, and in others that Sauron kept control by holding the rings himself: "They would have obeyed . . . any minor command of his that did not interfere with their errand — laid upon them by Sauron, who still through their nine rings
565:, Sauron, finally realizing his peril, orders the remaining eight Nazgûl to fly to intercept him. They arrive too late: Gollum seizes the Ring and falls into the Cracks of Doom, destroying the Ring. That ends Sauron's power and everything he had brought into being using it, including the Nazgûl.
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475:'s flesh. During their assault, they mentally command Frodo to put on the One Ring; while wearing it, he sees them as pale figures robed in white, with "haggard hands", helmets and swords. The Witch-king was taller than the others, with "long and gleaming" hair and a crown on his helmet.
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1897:, book 5, ch. 6, "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields". "There they had been mustered for the sack of the City and the rape of Gondor, waiting on the call of their Captain. He now was destroyed; but Gothmog the lieutenant of Morgul had flung them into the fray..."
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as "a philological curiosity", replying that to him this is "precisely one of its greatest strengths". Fisher explores in detail the connotations of
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Bakshi's Nazgûl shamble and limp like zombies, giving them a truly creepy feeling. Understandably unsettled, the hobbits decide to skip Buckland—and also the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil's house, and the Barrow-downs—and head straight to The Prancing Pony in
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a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was
543:, a hobbit of the Company. Éowyn boldly calls the Nazgûl a "dwimmerlaik", telling him to go if he is not deathless. He casts back his hood to reveal a crown, but the head that wears it is invisible. Merry's surreptitious stroke with an enchanted
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the ground as the hidden menace passed over them, or they would stand, letting their weapons fall from nerveless hands while into their minds a blackness came, and they thought no more of war, but only of hiding and of crawling, and of death.
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calls them Sauron's "most terrible servants". Their leader, known as the
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality
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2812:"Lord Of The Rings: 20 Strangest Details About Witch-King's Anatomy"
1512:, 4. "The Hunt for the Ring" i. "Of the Journey of the Black Riders"
32:"Dark Riders" and "Black Riders" redirect here. For other uses, see
2408:"Review: The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth"
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features Aragorn fighting a Ringwraith on the borders of Mirkwood.
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learning to ride Nazgûl-birds, 'for the liberation of the Shire'."
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2729:"Audiobook Review: The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers(1981)"
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1637:, Appendix B, "The Tale of Years", entries in "The Second Age"
1565:, 4. "The Hunt for the Ring" ii. "Other Versions of the Story"
1671:, Appendix B, "The Tale of Years", entries in "The Third Age"
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and 'animal horror' on the Somme." Earlier, in his 2003 book
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brings the Nazgûl to his knees, allowing Éowyn, the niece of
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The Nazgûl hacking and slashing at the hobbits' beds in the
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Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth
860:. Both terms have connotations of being "bent and twisted".
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The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-Earth's Magical Style
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Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey
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provides "Translator's Notes" which assert as part of her
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has the meaning "magic" in Tolkien's invented language of
2779:(2003). "The Lord of the Rings: Imagining Middle-earth".
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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
2222:(2006). "What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?". In
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inn, whereas Tolkien does not identify the assailants.
2978:"How Shadow of War Breaks Tolkien's Middle-Earth Lore"
417:, the Nazgûl's stronghold, and the valley is known as
3079:"Trivalia: Neuhvatljivi crni jahači", Rokcomotiva.com
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St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers
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1654:, Appendix A, I, iv "Gondor and the heirs of Anarion"
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2955:"Extending The Desolation of Smaug: More Is More"
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1937:, 29 May 1945, expressing his "loathing" for the
949:"Black Breath" redirects here. For the band, see
1783:book 1, ch. 9 "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony"
1401:; Tolkien glosses it in the index as a "work of
1193:in the Black Speech of Mordor. The 1991 Russian
603:("fierce, cruel") to other creatures throughout
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1037:meaning "horrible darkness, black mist" and
561:. When Frodo claims the Ring for his own in
2133:The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
1609:The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
1482:, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"
801:. Fisher comments that this has an English
280:, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"
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1274:The Nazgûl are featured in the video game
1071:which "suggest the influence of 1914–18".
755:, to bend or twist, and in turn to Gothic
2342:A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works
1989:, book 2, ch. 7 "The Mirror of Galadriel"
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3068:. Belgrade: self-released. p. 228.
2976:Mithaiwala, Mansoor (25 October 2017).
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5662:Literary characters introduced in 1954
5496:The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game
3684:The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
2013:, book 5, ch. 4, "The Siege of Gondor"
1873:, #211 to Rhona Beare, 14 October 1958
1577:, Appendix A, 1 "The Numenorean Kings"
49:
2667:Gilkeson, Austin (13 November 2018).
1945:would have had if he discovered some
1831:, book 5, ch. 4 "The Siege of Gondor"
897:, with Lancashire dialect words like
193:, servants bound to the power of the
7:
5591:The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
1553:book 1, ch. 11 "A Knife in the Dark"
1055:Tolkien's First World War experience
886:A Dictionary of the English Language
778:"Nazgûl" has the Black Speech roots
334:, his second-in-command is named as
236:stabs him with an ancient enchanted
4814:Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings
2927:Mooney, Michael (20 January 2014).
2861:Dellamorte, Andrew (20 June 2011).
2833:Barnes, Brooks (30 November 2012).
1819:book 2, ch. 3 "The Ring Goes South"
1807:book 1, ch. 12 "Flight to the Ford"
1389:"Dwimmerlaik" represents a word in
1045:, the Black Breath, the fog on the
759:, curved, crooked, or winding, and
149:, "wraith, spirit"), introduced as
5577:Middle-earth Collectible Card Game
3066:EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960–2006
2908:"Tolkien's Gentlemanly Art of War"
2906:Conlogue, Ray (16 December 2003).
2810:Dembrow, Dylan (4 November 2018).
2697:Gilkeson, Austin (24 April 2019).
2345:. Boston: Dana Estes and Company.
607:– even at one point to the wizard
25:
5609:Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game
5539:Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith
2953:LaSala, Jeff (14 November 2014).
2753:Templeton, Molly (6 April 2021).
1138:'s 1978 animated film version of
5657:The Lord of the Rings characters
3573:
1723:book 1, ch. 3 "Three is Company"
809:", a wraith, which derives from
4623:The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
3100:The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
2420:(1, Fall/Winter 2014): 146–149.
2025:, book 2, ch. 1 "Many Meetings"
1536:, "Journey of the Black Riders"
1231:Minas Morgul is shown first in
638:compares the fell beast to the
5308:The Battle for Middle-earth II
5069:Peter Jackson's interpretation
4571:The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
3724:Ancestry as guide to character
3102:: Revised and Expanded Edition
2782:Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon
1747:book 1, ch. 6 "The Old Forest"
1277:Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
1134:on radio, film, and stage. In
723:'s "denigrating dismissal" of
407:, capture it, and acquire its
169:, are fictional characters in
1:
5503:The One Ring Roleplaying Game
3498:The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen
521:Battle of the Pelennor Fields
413:for Sauron. The city becomes
5392:The Lord of the Rings Online
2727:Nephrite (22 January 2019).
1417:, meaning "a state or act".
1209:film trilogy (2001–2003) by
145:
139:
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38:Black Rider (disambiguation)
5294:The Battle for Middle-earth
5201:Game Two: Shadows of Mordor
4630:The History of Middle-earth
3563:Tolkien's impact on fantasy
2226:; Scull, Christina (eds.).
2191:University of Toronto Press
2169:. Level/area: Barad Guldur.
2037:, book 1, ch. 10, "Strider"
1921:book 6, ch. 3, "Mount Doom"
1283:Middle-earth: Shadow of War
1127:The Nazgûl are featured in
1025:finds Christopher Gilson's
285:The Nazgûl or Ringwraiths (
34:Dark Rider (disambiguation)
5698:
5616:Lego The Lord of the Rings
5510:Adventures in Middle-earth
5345:Lego The Lord of the Rings
5315:The Rise of the Witch-king
5252:The Fellowship of the Ring
4989:The Fellowship of the Ring
4665:The Nature of Middle-earth
4541:List of weapons and armour
3451:The Fellowship of the Ring
3159:The Fellowship of the Ring
3064:Janjatović, Petar (2007).
2467:Urquart, Jennifer (2014).
2232:Marquette University Press
1409:, "phantom, illusion" and
1304:The Rise of the Witch-king
1233:The Fellowship of the Ring
1122:1978 animated film version
1007:gas in the First World War
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775:, to turn, bend, or wind.
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93:The Fellowship of the Ring
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5489:Middle-earth Role Playing
5352:Guardians of Middle-earth
4983:
4674:
4644:The History of The Hobbit
3571:
3491:The Scouring of the Shire
3416:
2431:Walker, Steve C. (2009).
1589:, Index, entry for Khamûl
1189:has the Nazgûl chant the
1064:Tolkien and the Great War
707:Etymological connotations
687:stylistic levels or modes
523:, the Lord of the Nazgûl
185:'s power through wearing
3291:The Return of the Shadow
2475:(55 Winter 2014): 14–17.
1795:book 1, ch. 10 "Strider"
1349:independent record label
1049:, and the terror of the
909:Invisible, but corporeal
293:) first appeared in the
5245:Vol. II: The Two Towers
4962:The War of the Rohirrim
4763:Margrethe II of Denmark
3934:A mythology for England
3323:The Treason of Isengard
3027:Pringle, David (1998).
3007:Behind the Voice Actors
1315:for one of the Nazgûl.
1259:In Jackson's 2012–2014
1250:The fan-made 2009 film
821:, wise, wisdom, and to
514:, "The Siege of Gondor"
425:). Sauron returns from
58:In-universe information
42:Nazgul (disambiguation)
5667:Male literary villains
5266:The Return of the King
5005:The Return of the King
4950:The Return of the King
4850:The Battle of Evermore
3834:Psychological journeys
3477:The Shadow of the Past
3465:The Return of the King
3191:The Return of the King
2643:Bradley, Marion Zimmer
2298:; Martsch, N. (eds.).
1706:The Shadow of the Past
1228:
1176:The Return of the King
1166:
1155:A Nazgûl portrayed in
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730:those that he invented
664:Tolkien began writing
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559:Battle of the Morannon
511:The Return of the King
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364:Sketch map of part of
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5682:Middle-earth monsters
4938:The Lord of the Rings
4902:The Lord of the Rings
4882:The Lord of the Rings
4870:The Lord of the Rings
4823:The Lord of the Rings
4736:A Map of Middle-earth
4637:The Children of Húrin
4595:The Road Goes Ever On
3739:Death and immortality
3689:The Road Goes Ever On
3666:A Elbereth Gilthoniel
3484:The Council of Elrond
3429:The Lord of the Rings
3409:The Lord of the Rings
3197:The Lord of the Rings
3165:The Lord of the Rings
2929:"The Hunt For Gollum"
2545:10.1353/tks.2014.0002
2063:Guide to Middle Earth
1690:The Council of Elrond
1361:The Lord of the Rings
1323:The fantasy novelist
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1207:The Lord of the Rings
1186:The Lord of the Rings
1162:The Lord of the Rings
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1084:Marion Zimmer Bradley
1069:The Lord of the Rings
1021:Tolkien's biographer
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573:Further information:
527:, including Grond, a
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202:The Lord of the Rings
181:who had succumbed to
5187:Journey to Rivendell
4894:Hordes of the Things
4658:The Fall of Gondolin
4346:Watcher in the Water
4314:Witch-king of Angmar
3511:List of translations
3035:. pp. 388–390.
2647:"The Jewel of Arwen"
2404:Croft, Janet Brennan
2296:Croft, Janet Brennan
2234:. pp. 101–112.
2193:. pp. 104–106.
1057:"of smoke barrages,
1011:Gas Attack, Flanders
915:Witch-king of Angmar
891:Lancashire Fusiliers
879:, as is recorded in
696:Anatomy of Criticism
673:and early drafts of
539:; and not far away,
324:Witch-king of Angmar
207:Witch-king of Angmar
5208:War in Middle Earth
5154:The Hunt for Gollum
4708:The Last Ringbearer
3994:Narrative structure
3989:Impression of depth
3606:Company of the Ring
3355:The War of the Ring
3350:Christopher Tolkien
3318:Christopher Tolkien
3286:Christopher Tolkien
3254:Christopher Tolkien
3222:Christopher Tolkien
3095:Carpenter, Humphrey
2308:. pp. 97–114.
1935:Christopher Tolkien
1325:George R. R. Martin
1253:The Hunt for Gollum
979:'s use of the herb
951:Black Breath (band)
936:Gradual incarnation
689:(as categorised by
495:Company of the Ring
484:Company of the Ring
462:Ranger of the North
432:Sauron learns from
395:The Nazgûl besiege
265:Those who used the
245:Company of the Ring
47:Fictional character
5451:War of Three Peaks
5128:The Rings of Power
5062:Hobbiton Movie Set
5026:Concerning Hobbits
4910:Der Herr der Ringe
4843:Misty Mountain Hop
4700:Bored of the Rings
4524:Phial of Galadriel
3854:Sound and language
3749:Dreams and visions
3719:Addiction to power
3134:(Third ed.).
2913:The Globe and Mail
2840:The New York Times
2789:. pp. 11–59.
2787:Palgrave Macmillan
2586:10.1353/tks.0.0059
2509:10.1353/tks.0.0036
2441:. pp. 23–24.
2439:Palgrave Macmillan
2382:. pp. 20–38.
2268:, pp. 242–243
1397:, translated into
1330:The Armageddon Rag
1311:invented the name
1293:Return of the King
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4651:Beren and Lúthien
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3982:Pseudotranslation
3972:Editorial framing
3967:Character pairing
3814:Naming of weapons
3346:Tolkien, J. R. R.
3337:978-0-395-51562-4
3314:Tolkien, J. R. R.
3305:978-0-395-49863-7
3282:Tolkien, J. R. R.
3273:978-0-395-29917-3
3250:Tolkien, J. R. R.
3241:978-0-395-25730-2
3218:Tolkien, J. R. R.
3186:Tolkien, J. R. R.
3154:Tolkien, J. R. R.
3145:978-0-261-10275-0
3115:978-0-35-865298-4
3042:978-1-55862-206-7
2796:978-1-4039-1263-3
2623:978-0-00711-953-0
2315:978-1-4766-1486-1
2224:Hammond, Wayne G.
2200:978-0-8020-3806-7
2147:978-0-00-720907-1
2124:Hammond, Wayne G.
2077:978-0-345-27547-9
1704:, book 1, ch. 2 "
1688:, book 2, ch. 2 "
1619:A Tolkien Compass
1600:Hammond, Wayne G.
1335:ritually murdered
1286:. In the latter,
1146:The Prancing Pony
1051:Paths of the Dead
254:Fictional history
177:. They were nine
128:
127:
16:(Redirected from
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5672:Fictional nonets
5647:Fictional undead
5642:Middle-earth Men
5458:Fate of Gundabad
5416:Rise of Isengard
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5359:Shadow of Mordor
5338:War in the North
5286:Game Boy Advance
4981:
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4685:derivative works
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4616:Unfinished Tales
4609:The Silmarillion
4391:
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3819:Northern courage
3764:Environmentalism
3744:Decline and fall
3679:Song of Eärendil
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928:invisible head.
848:connections and
742:George MacDonald
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297:. The Dark Lord
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153:and also called
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4955:Rankin/Bass
4905:(BBC, 1981)
4785:Fellowship!
4768:Ted Nasmith
4681:Adaptations
4488:Helm's Deep
4011:Prose style
3999:Interlacing
3962:Anachronism
3944:Shakespeare
3551:Tolkienmoot
3541:Fan fiction
3506:Translating
2604:Garth, John
2568:Garth, John
2321:28 November
1977:, pp. 42–43
1419:Tom Shippey
1399:Old English
1357:Black Rider
1341:Gothic rock
1217:'s scream.
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1095:Adaptations
1088:frame story
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625:pterodactyl
419:Morgul Vale
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397:Minas Ithil
163:Nine Riders
159:Dark Riders
155:Ringwraiths
83:Ringwraiths
81:Fell Riders
18:Ringwraiths
5636:Categories
5569:Card games
5112:Khraniteli
5057:Production
4564:The Hobbit
4445:Lothlórien
4411:Old Forest
4277:Wormtongue
4133:Half-elven
4128:Glorfindel
3954:Techniques
3879:Influences
3522:Reception
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1262:The Hobbit
1215:Fran Walsh
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259:Second Age
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4167:Treebeard
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4577:Errantry
4534:One Ring
4498:Morannon
4470:Isengard
4450:Mirkwood
4402:Eriador
4291:Monsters
4244:Denethor
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