Though the Ringwraiths were among the greatest of Sauron's servants, they also had certain weaknesses that could be used against them. One of these was daylight itself. With the exception of the Witch-king of Angmar, none of them (especially Khamûl) could operate as well under the Sun and generally feared it.
The exact reason for the Nazgûl's aversion to water is not totally clear, but it likely has to do with the Ulmo explanation or more of a general fear than an outright inability to cross moving water.
In his final battle, the Lord of the Nazgûl attacks Éowyn with a mace. The hobbit Merry stabs him with an ancient enchanted Númenórean blade, allowing Éowyn to kill him with her sword.
They Can't Touch Water
Some fans have theorized that their fear of water was actually due to their connection to the elves, as Elven lore claimed that the spirits of a former elf king flowed through all of the bodies of water in Middle Earth.
The Nazgûl from Lord of the Rings are some of the series' most iconic villains. However, they may have a surprisingly simple weakness to fire -- and this allowed the heroes to come out over them in a crucial moment.
The Witch-king is the most powerful of the nine ringwraiths, having served Sauron as a Nazgûl for more than four thousand years. The Witch-king has a particular hatred of Gondor, and is responsible for the death of Gondor's final king, Eärnur.
They would live indefinitely long, untouched by disease or old age. They apear to be able to recover from potentially significant injuries (getting washed down a flooded river).
Appearanceedit. To mortals, the Nazgûl appeared as shadowy Men hidden by black hoods and cloaks that reached down to their boots. Without their cloaks, they were shapeless, and invisible to all but the wearer of the One Ring.
The Nazgûl actually died before Sauron had finished his death throes, since they rushed towards Mount Doom when Sauron had finally realized his danger and were caught in the eruption and destroyed. However, had they not, they still would have perished soon after.
The Witch-king, the Lord of the Nazgûl, used one such Morgul-knife to stab Frodo on Weathertop.
The Nazgul's howls -- a supremely unsettling screech that announced the arrival of Sauron's chief minions -- actually came from a simple trick. The Ringwraiths constituted Sauron's first real move against the remainder of Middle-earth, sent into the Shire to hunt down the One Ring in Frodo Baggins's care.
Light has always been harmful to the servants of evil in Tolkien's works. The Nazgul, as servants of Sauron feel discomfort in sunlight, but being surrounded by fire and heat goes from discomfort to actual pain.
But Nazgûl were not equipped with highly calibrated One Ring Radar and it did not have a homing device attached to it. The Nazgûl could only get a general sense of in which direction the Ring lay until Frodo began to fade or when he put the Ring on. They were better able to perceive Frodo himself than the Ring.
Most likely, the idea was incorporated as a plot device to prevent the Hobbits from being captured, derived from European folklore, which portrayed unholy creatures, such as vampires, as being unable to cross running water.
Although their role in The Lord of the Rings is diminished after the Nazgûl are washed away in the Fords of Bruinen near Rivendell, all of them survive the watery attack and return for the final battle.
So in their existence, they were something in between the spiritual and the material world - and in order to be able to influence the material world (e.g. ride horses, use Morgul blades etc.), they had to take some, albeit vague, physical shape, which in this case were black-robed figures.
After four millennium spent cheating death, the Ringwraiths' souls were required in hell—or wherever the spirits of Men go when they depart the world of Arda. *As with almost everything else in Tolkien's cosmology, there were a few exceptions.
The Nazgûl (Black Speech for "Ringwraiths") or Úlairi (Quenya), also known as the Black Riders or simply The Nine, were the dreaded ring-servants of the Dark Lord Sauron in Middle-earth throughout the Second and Third Ages, who in the later years of the Third Age dwelt in Minas Morgul and Dol Guldur.
The Nazgûl were once men, before being gifted nine of the titular Rings of Power by Sauron. The Rings corrupted them just as the One Ring does those who possess it, and they transformed into the dark lord's monstrous soldiers.
The Nazgûl Sisters, known as Riya and Yukka are the main antagonists in Middle-earth: Shadow of War story expansion, The Blade of Galadriel. They were once daughters to Emperor Sagong of the Kingdom of Shen in the farthest east of Middle-earth. These powerful warriors were sent to Mordor for conquest by their father.
The High Fells of Rhudaur was the location of the tombs made for the Nazgûl, created following their defeat at the hands of the Men of Arnor.
Armor Class: A Nazgûl has a +4 natural armor bonus or the base creature's natural armor bonus, whichever is better.
Éowyn killed the Witch-king of Angmar in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, but the movie leaves out some important details about how she did it when the Witch-king is more-or-less immune to mortal weapons.
After he was attacked by the orcs, they transported his lifeless body to Mordor at Sauron's behest. Sauron revived Isildur with one of the nine rings, and then tortured him until his spirit was broken and he became a Nazgûl.
No. They are not afraid of fire, just like they wern't afraid to cross the river Anduin into Riverdale, but Elrond sent a flood of water that killed their horses.