I believe they are described as armed when Frodo, wearing the Ring, is able to perceive them. I'd have to search for the reference in the Weathertop chapter, but look at that. The Nazgul are not accustomed to resistance, and were utterly unprepared for the moral fortitude of hobbits.īear in mind that one Ringwraith struck Frodo with a Morgul blade - but they also had swords of a more ordinary sort. this would have taken a while for sure but the River incident happend in early October, the fellowship doesn't leave Rivendell until late December, and the next Nazgul encounter doesn't occur until they are traveling down the Anduin which is sometime in early spring without that physical form they exist only in the wraith world and "have been obliged to return as best they could to their Master in Mordor, empty and shapeless" (from the chapter The Ring Goes South) the river, summoned by Elrond with help from Gandalf (Arwen in the movie) killed their horse and destroyed the physical shape they took as black riders both Sauron and Morgoth seem to like taunting and punishing their enemies rather than just killing them outright so it may have been that the Nazgul were ordered to bring the Ringbearer back to Mordor alive.You would have become a wraith under the dominion of the Dark Lord and he would have tormented you for trying to keep his Ring." If they had succeeded, you would have become like they are, only weaker and under their command. in the chapter Many Meetings, Gandalf says "They tried to pierce your heart with a Morgul-knife which remains in the wound.The Morgul blade question is a tough one but here we go. If anyone can clear up any of those questions I would greatly appreciate it. It seems in general that the NazGul are not as effective as I would expect the higher ranks of Sauron’s army to be. The gf told me the trip to minas morgul would be about TWO MONTHS JOURNEY which is insane to me. As I understand it they also carry secondary longswords but then the question would be why they carry morgul blades at all? They don’t appear to be on a spree converting people into lesser wraiths, which is what I was told the effect of the morgul blade is, so why even use the morgul blades? Why use it against Frodo on the abandoned tower? And should they not carry more than one morgul blade so they can continue wielding a weapon after their previous blade disintegrates?Īlso after they are washed away by Arwen’s horse water magic, which I’m guessing kills their horses, do they have to make the journey back to minas morgul on foot to restock? Do they similarly have to do this whenever their morgul blades are used up or when they need new robes (burned up by Aragorn). This seems like it makes the NazGul like bees where they can sting once before being without a blade. They seem to be really ineffective in general being, as I understand it, a one time use kind of thing as the sword embeds itself in the victim before the rest of the blade evaporates to dust. The most confusing thing is the morgul blades. I was hoping I could find some answers here as I am not very familiar with lotr lore in general. We started with the fellowship last night and there are some things about the ringwraiths that seem very confusing to me. So me and my girlfriend (who is a long time lotr super fan) finally got around to watching the lord of the rings. If you are discussing something new, such as the recent Hobbit movies, please use spoiler tags as follows: (/spoiler)Īnd remember NOT to put spoilers in your post titles! If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world! Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli Snoos created by Tom Sexton LoTR - Wikipedia Page Spoiler Tags - USE THEM! Tolkien Related Multi-Reddit to Rule them All Recommended Sites
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