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- From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: MERP and Names of the Nazgul...
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:35:55 GMT
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- fionn@maths.tcd.ie (Fionn Hurley) writes:
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- >I don't know what the current concensus is in this group concerning the
- >ICE Middle-Earth Role Playing system, but I find it is useful in some
- >respects to piece together some items of information. Granted the authors
- >may indeed have taken certain liberties with JRRT's books, but it may indeed
- >be possible that they have delved deeply into all his works and come up with
- >a few things that are not common knowledge. Here then are some names of the
- >Nazgul which appear in MERP and which may or may not be true:
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- >The Witch-King
- >Khamul
- >Akorahil (The Storm King)
- >Adunaphel (a female Nazgul)
- >Dwar the Doglord
-
- >This is all that I can remember offhand and is not particularly in order,
- >although The Witch King was the captain of the lot and Khamul was second
- >in command. Hope this is of use to someone....
-
- The names of the Nine, according to the MERP supplements, are as follows:
-
- Murazor the Witch-King, Lord of the Nazgul
- Khamul
- Dendra Dwar
- Ji Indur
- Akhorahil
- Hoarmurath
- Adunaphel
- Ren
- Uvatha
-
- Of these names, I've found mention of only Khamul in Tolkien's writings
- (Khamul was named in _Unfinished Tales_). I suspect ICE pulled the
- other names out of thin air.
-
-
- --Steve Stelter
- sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
-