The Ringwraiths or Nazgul are first introduced as they go to the Shire to look for the Ring.
But the films tell very little about them because there isn’t much to tell.
These terrifying beings are largely mysterious, even withJ.
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R. R. Tolkien’s detailed writings about Middle-earth.
How long it took them to go from leaders of Men to Nazgul isn’t clear.
Fantasy has flat-earthers too.
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Yet the Second Age goes on for roughly 1,200 years after the Nazgul first appeared in their wraith form.
Khamul is the sole Nazgul whose name from before his transformation is established, assumedly.
Yet that is all established about him before the War of the Ring.
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