[ SECRET POST #3539 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3539 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/0fMYAKS.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Aww. I never even thought about that possibility, but now it seems even more tragic.

[arcadiaego]

Oof that makes it worse for me!

[(Anonymous)]

Just out of curiosity, is this just a random headcanon or is there a kernel of this in the books?

[(Anonymous)]

OP

Just a random headcanon. No one knows anything about the background of the Witch-King before he got the ring, except that Tolkien wrote in a letter that he was "probably" (though not definitely) a Numenorean.

The passage quoted implies that SOME of the Nazgul started out good with good intentions, but there's no way of knowing which ones, afaik. But I liked the idea that the most powerful one and the one we see the most of was an ex-good guy.

[philstar22]

Hmmm. I tend to more think he was already particularly evil and was personally selected by Sauron. Kind of like how I see Sauron already having kernels of who he would become before he met Melkor. The other Nazgul were just kings willing to take the rings, but I think the Witch King was someone who was specifically chosen for his potential, someone Sauron already had his eye on.

But I do like this headcanon too.

[analise]

So Sauron is Palpatine in this situation and the Witch-King is Anakin/Darth Vader?

:)

[philstar22]

Yes, kind of. Not to the extent that Melkor and Mairon are because I think Mairon mostly saw the Nazgul as tools. I don't think he actually much cares about them. But yes, he's good at finding evil potential and corrupting. That's his whole schtick.

[(Anonymous)]

I like this!

In Tolkien's work there's this element that that the better and brighter and "higher" you are the further and harder you are able to fall.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

My headcanon was one I got from Valandhir. Her screen name was originally a name she came up with for an Edain who refused to go to Númenor and settled in the Angmar region. Now I don't think the Witch King is Valandhir exactly, but he would be a direct descendant who was alive at the time Sauron was handing out the rings.

But I could easily fit your idea into that set-up, even though I also think Angmar as a region tended to be quite brutal by nature. A good king in a brutal land who accepted the ring because it would help him control an often chaotic land... and it ended up turning him into a vicious tyrant-king and eventually a Wraith.