Why do ghosts wear sheets? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Don't the Nazgul have some kind of armour on under their robes? Cause when the witchking is reaching for the ring at Weathertop, he's got some kind of glove thing on hasn't he? So would they be invisible completely without their robes, or just a pair of floating hands. Maybe they didn't have gloves in the book. I can't remember.

Wait a minute...Saucepan Man? Isn't he from the faraway tree? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Oah deary my .... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] Again I'm startin' ta think I have found this site too late . So many replys that I have not read them all again so again I must beg for forgivenes in case of I repeat somebody .
Well firstly who cares about small things like theese ? You gotta admit that those black robes gave the effect . And those gloves ? Well a book is one thing but in the film how do you imagine the scene with those swords on the Weathertop at the incredible moment when the Nazgūl (damn I can't do that u thing even if following the given insturctiones [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] ) were steping out from the shadows slowly taking step by step and slowly drawing their swords and lining up , just imagine this scene with only sound of footsteps where iron boots had to be and those swords hanging in the air instead of being held by an impressive glove . It would not look so good , I belive .
And secondly , maybe I'm mistakening but I do not remember Tolkien writing anything about those gloves . Maybe I'm wrong so correct me if I am .

i only have this to say:
O, that this too too soild flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into dew
-shakespear Hamelt, 1,2
The time has been , that when the brains were out, thZ

i remember reading once in the book that--
gandalf says" nazgul wear black robes to give form to their nothingness"

i also think that without the black robes they could not have travelled throughout hobbiton and bree cause people would take them to be ghosts