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Black Rider has a minion!
Minion the Nightmane
Minion the Nightmane
Black Rider
Legacy Name: Black Rider
The Graveyard Legeica
Owner: L0stS0ul
Age: 13 years, 9 months, 2 weeks
Born: June 12th, 2010
Adopted: 12 years, 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Adopted: June 1st, 2011
Statistics
- Level: 15
- Strength: 27
- Defense: 16
- Speed: 17
- Health: 17
- HP: 17/17
- Intelligence: 20
- Books Read: 9
- Food Eaten: 0
- Job: Register Supervisor
Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing. They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them. They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men; but too often they beheld only the phantoms and delusions of Sauron.
And one by one, sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning, they fell under the thralldom of the ring that they bore and of the domination of the One which was Sauron's. And they became forever invisible save to him that wore the Ruling Ring, and they entered into the realm of shadows. The Nazgûl were they, the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terrible servants; darkness went with them, and they cried with the voices of death.
- The Silmarillion: "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age," p. 289
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Sauron's Ringwraiths were unusual in that they were normally referred to by their name in Sauron's Black Speech - Nazgûl - rather than being given an Elvish name. The rarely used Quenya name for Nazgûl is Úlairi; from this it can be conjectured that the Sindarin term is Ulaer.
They are also called the Fell Riders and the Black Wings (when they ride the Fell beasts), and the Nine Riders and the Black Riders (when they ride the black horses). By the Orcs of the Tower of Cirith Ungol they are called the Shriekers.