We know the witch king is one and another is a king from the east. but what about the others do we know where they are from? was there a numenorian wraith?was there a gondorian wraith? who where the other kings of men swayed by the dark powers?
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Only Khamul was named among the Nazgul. However, several games have made up the names of the others.
At least three were of Numenorean descent, including the Witch King.
Gothmog, the lieutenant of Minas Morgul who commanded Sauron's army at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields after the Witch-king fell, might have been one of the Nazgûl, though I have serious doubts.
The Men whom Sauron corrupted with the Nine Rings first appeared as Nazgûl around the year 2250 of the Second Age, long before the founding of Arnor and Gondor. Before they were transformed into the Ringwraiths, they were known as heroes, kings and sorcerers.
I thought Gothmog was a Nazgul, although his identity is unknown. Other possible contenders are the Black Numenoreans Herumor and Fuinur, who became lords of the Haradrim in the Second Age.
Herumor and Fuinur both seem to enter the legendarium too late (around S.A. 3300) to have been Nazgûl. The Ringwraiths first appeared as such around the year 2251, over one thousand years earler. This does assume that the Wraiths all first appeared at roughly the same time, but it's a bit of a stretch to think that at least two didn't debut until over a thousand years later (almost at the very end of the Second Age).
Pet theory about the Black Numenoreans I mentioned earlier: Herumor became the Witch King, and Fuinur became the Mouth of Sauron.
If the Nazgûl first appeared as Wraiths around the year 2251 of the Second Age then Herumor and Fuinur show up much too late in the legendarium (about S.A. 3300).
In addition, the Mouth of Sauron seems to be a living Man and, as such, could not possibly be old enough to have been Fuinur. He might have been descended from either Herumor or Fuinur though.
@andrewlaubacher Maybe Angamaite or Sangahyando as the Mouth of Sauron then? I know they lived long before the events of LOTR, but the Mouth had his life unnaturally extended, so I assume he has lived even longer than a pureblooded Dunadan.
@eldariontkd Maybe, though it seems unlikely to me. Either brother would have to be around 1500 years old to be the Mouth of Sauron.
Talion?
*ducks*
If only Talion were Black Númenórean! 😉
Talion became a Nazgul in the game after he killed one of them.
Yeah, and I hear that the game also made Helm Hammerhand a Nazgûl too, which is also not possible within Tolkien's legendarium.
From what I've seen, that game disregarded canon quite a bit. Of course, check my post about canon and gaming. Still, the designers went much too far.
Yeah, I didn't even mention what they did with Shelob.
@andrewlaubacher The less said about that the better.