- and gûl, "wraith, spirit"),
introduced as
Black Riders and also
called Ringwraiths, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or
simply the Nine, are
fictional characters...
-
Mordor in "Ramble On", the
Misty Mountains in "Misty
Mountain Hop", and
Ringwraiths in "The
Battle of Evermore". In 1970, the
Swedish musician Bo Hansson...
- sets out for Mirkwood. On the way, he
briefly spots one of the nine
Ringwraiths in the woods, but
avoids it.
Later that same day, he is
attacked by an...
-
killed when his
horse falls, but his
niece Éowyn
kills the
leader of the
Ringwraiths. Tolkien's own account, in an
unsent letter,
gives both the fictional...
- in the home
leads her to
fulfil the
prophecy about the
leader of the
Ringwraiths, the Witch-King of Angmar, that "not by the hand of man will [he] fall"...
- In the
First Age, some
Easterlings are
under Morgoth's dominion. The
Ringwraiths (also
known as Nazgûl or
Black Riders) are once
great Men who are given...
- will tell us all" in line 4, "The
drums will
shake the
castle wall, the
Ringwraiths ride in black" in line 18, and
mentions of war and
swords (line 13),...
-
Weathertop mountain by the
chief of the
Ringwraiths, and
becomes sickened as the
journey progresses. The
Ringwraiths catch up with them
shortly after they...
- R. R.
Tolkien states, to
match and
oppose the nine
Black Riders or
Ringwraiths.
Scholars have
commented that
Tolkien saw
community as the
right way...
- Men that the dark lord
Sauron gave
Rings of Power,
becoming Nazgûl or
Ringwraiths. His ring
gives him
great power, but
enslaves him to
Sauron and makes...
