[ SECRET POST #3766 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3766 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I always figured that the ensnaring would have been fairly fast, the initial grip the rings got on their minds, but the physical corruption into full-blown Nazgul would have been slower. Like Gollum, something that took place over a long, long time? Maybe that's because Bilbo's line about feeling 'stretched', butter scraped over too much bread, always hit me so hard. Getting older but never old enough, keeping going long after you should have stopped, becoming increasingly thin and insubstantial and wraith-like the longer you went on. Maybe noticing it, maybe realising there was something happening to you that shouldn't, but it's too late by then to stop.

Especially since they became more powerful as they went as well, and maybe past a certain point they started feeling like that was an okay trade off? Like, okay, I look like a strung-out ghost now, but on the flipside I can terrify everything in a 20 mile radius and ride hellbeasts? And by the point you're a witch-wraith, it's really too late to turn back anyway.

I've always been kind of fascinated by the various kinds of corruption all the various races go through in Middle Earth. Rings turning men into power-hungry wraiths, dwarves into gold-lusting madmen, hobbits into monomaniacal creatures like Gollum. Silmarils turning elves into oathbound murdering warmongers. Corruption turning Maiar into titanic forces of darkness a-la Sauron or nearly man-like corrupt power players like Saruman. Nobody's safe, and everybody gets exaggerated into caricatures of the worst aspects of their culture/personality. And so many of them don't notice until they're already nearly there, or well, well past the point of no return.

[pockysquirrel]

This is an excellent post and I agree ardently with all points.