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Spragh
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Post Nazgul beasts
on: January 10, 2010 02:51
Does enyone knows what are those reptiles that Nazgul ride.I mean,they are not dragons...wright?

[Edited on 10/1/2010 by Spragh]
El-Tazrín
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Post RE: Nazgul beasts
on: January 10, 2010 02:53
They're Fell Beasts
Spragh
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Post RE: Nazgul beasts
on: January 10, 2010 04:00
Ou...yes...thanks.
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Post RE: Nazgul beasts
on: January 10, 2010 04:01
Anybody knows the origin of them?
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Post RE: Nazgul beasts
on: January 10, 2010 07:03
They're described in the LOTR (the encounter of Éowyn and the Witch King) as
A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed.

Somewhere, in one of his letters I think, Tolkien said that they might be some kind of pterosaurs.
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Post RE: Nazgul beasts
on: January 10, 2010 07:28
Wow Morwin! Thanks for the pterosaur link. I was absolutely enthralled and almost burned my dinner!
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Post RE: Nazgul beasts
on: January 10, 2010 07:30
Thanks wery much!
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