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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}}), and this wouldn't have helped name the other seven in any case. Using the names created by previous Tolkien licensors like Iron Crown's ''Middle-Earth Role-Playing System'' wasn't practical since it had to go through past the Tolkien Estate and the previous licensors for permission, and risked running into the same issue of fans unhappy with non-canonical original names. Decipher's interim solution in playtesting was "First Nazgûl," "Second Nazgûl," etc. but that wasn't very interesting. | 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}}), and this wouldn't have helped name the other seven in any case. Using the names created by previous Tolkien licensors like Iron Crown's ''Middle-Earth Role-Playing System'' wasn't practical since it had to go through past the Tolkien Estate and the previous licensors for permission, and risked running into the same issue of fans unhappy with non-canonical original names. Decipher's interim solution in playtesting was "First Nazgûl," "Second Nazgûl," etc. but that wasn't very interesting. | ||
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 from ''The Silmarillion'''s Quenya name for the Nazgûl, ''Úlairi'', 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== |