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The race of Nazgûl is restricted to only the {{C|Wraith}} culture, but they make up for that with a variety of strategies and subcultures. | The race of Nazgûl is restricted to only the {{C|Wraith}} culture, but they make up for that with a variety of strategies and subcultures. | ||
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== Names == | == Names == | ||
As Decipher only had rights to what was in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'', they couldn't have used Khamûl regardless (albeit they did make a nod to it on {{Card|Ulaire Attea, the Easterling}}) | While the Witch-king is one of the main antagonists, ''The Lord of the Rings'' never grants names to any of the other Ringwraiths, preferring to refer to them only as a collective. Out of all the rest of the writings of the Legendarium, only one other Nazgûl was ever given a name by Tolkien himself, that being Khamûl the Easterling in ''Unfinished Tales''. | ||
As Decipher only had rights to what was in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'', they couldn't have used Khamûl regardless (albeit they did make a nod to it on {{Card|Ulaire Attea, the Easterling}}). While some suggested that they simply adopt the names used by other companies (notably the names used by ICE for their Middle-earth CCG and Role-playing Game), licensing issues made that untenable. So Decipher was left stuck between the choice to invent brand new names (as ICE had done), or giving each Nazgûl a generic name such as "Second Nazgûl", "Third Nazgûl" and so forth. | |||
Eventually, one of the playtesters at Decipher suggested taking the generic names and translating them into (neo)-Quenya, the scholarly language of the elves, using a then-recently-published guide to Quenyan ordinals<ref>Wayback - Naming the Nazgul: http://web.archive.org/web/20050209163021/http://www.decipher.com:80/lordoftherings/articles/2001/namingthenazgul.html</ref>. The | Eventually, one of the playtesters at Decipher suggested taking the generic names and translating them into (neo)-Quenya, the scholarly language of the elves, using a then-recently-published guide to Quenyan ordinals<ref>Wayback - Naming the Nazgul: http://web.archive.org/web/20050209163021/http://www.decipher.com:80/lordoftherings/articles/2001/namingthenazgul.html</ref>. The term ''Úlairë'' was derived as the singular version of ''Úlairi'' "Ringwraiths", and then each Nazgûl had its number attached accordingly: "Second Nazgûl" becomes "Úlairë Attëa", "Third Nazgûl" becomes "Úlairë Nelya", and so on (The Witch-king of course is the First Nazgûl, which presumably would have been Úlairë Minya had it been necessary). The ordinals used in order are Attëa, Nelya, Cantëa, Lemenya, Enquëa, Otsëa, Toldëa, and Nertëa<ref>Tolkien Gateway - Quenya Numbers (other references at that location are more in-depth): http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Quenya_numbers</ref>. | ||
==List of Cards with the Nazgûl Race== | ==List of Cards with the Nazgûl Race== | ||
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==List of Cards that Interact with the Nazgûl Race== | ==List of Cards that Interact with the Nazgûl Race== | ||
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