In Of the Rings of Power and the Second Age it says that after Sauron had gathered the Rings of Power to himself he
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dealt them out to the other people of Middle Earth, hoping thus to bring under his sway all those that desired secret power beyond the measure of their kind
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so it was Sauron that dealt them out.
In the Silmarillion Tolkien wrote
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...In the south and in the further east Men multiplied; and most of them turned to evil, for Sauron was at work.
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We also know that the Harad-men and the Easterlings worshipped Sauron; he was their overlord, so I would suggest that more than one of the Nazgul were Easterlings or Southerners, tribal chieftans, warlords, men of power at any rate. We don't know how large the eastern areas went, but they had a lot more men than Minas Tirith did, as we saw in the battle before the Morannon, so probably large. This is all a long way of saying I think that the Nazgul (apart from the Numenoreans) were of eastern and southern extraction
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-Halbarad to Aragorn, 'The Passing of the Grey Company' Book V, Return of the King."A little people, but of great worth are the Shire-folk. Little do they know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not"
Last edited by Halbarad; 03-02-2005 at 06:08 AM.
Reason: spelling and factual errors
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