The whole idea of wraiths, I believe, is somewhat at odd with Tolkien's ideas about the fate of the Children of Illuvatar after death. I assumed when Sauron took the title of Necromancer it was because he was drawing on the spirit of Morgoth, who is "dead", in a sense, to the world.
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