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Otaku-sempai
Elvenhome
Aug 26 2020, 4:06am
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According to the tale of years, the Nazgul first appeared in 2251 of the second age and the battle of dagorlad was over two thousand years later. That's a long time to live, even for a ring-enhanced Numenorean. So it's probably fair to assume that they where pretty much wraithed up by then.
Maybe. Although we know the Rings of power have strange effects on people. Gollum was more 500 years old, having possessed the One ring for long, and was yet not wraith, and who knows how much longer he could have lived on so if Bilbo had not shown up. The Nine rings, may have similar powers. I don't know if the Nine beeing less powerful than the One would mean that their wearers wraith slower or faster, but it is not beyond possibilities that the stronger of the Nazgul could have kept themselves for a thousand years, though most likely they would have been, if not wraithed, then Gollumed, whatever that may imply for a man. It may also depend on how often they wore their rings I guess.
There are many things we can't know about the Nazgul at the time of the Last Alliance. Were they wraiths? Did they have flying mounts? Were they still leading the people they originally stemmed from? Were they all in the same state of [being]? And so on. If info on the Last Alliance of Men and Elves is limited, the info on their opponents at the time is even more limited. I think all we know is that all peoples except the Elves were represented, but we have no names on who led them, except the Nazgul and Sauron himself. Not that I can remember.
According to Appendix B of The Lord of the RIngs, the Nazgūl first appear as Wraiths in the year 2251 of the Second Age. They had likely been gifted with their Rings over 400 years before that (in some cases, maybe closer to 500 years). The Nazgūl were most definitely Wraiths well before the War of the Last Alliance. I very much doubt, though, that they rode flying beasts before the War of he Ring. I would guess that the territories that they controlled as Nazgūl were, for the most part, the lands that they ruled or otherwise came from in life.
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(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on Aug 26 2020, 4:08am)
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