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Agreed, that Hurin was supernaturally kept alive for the years without sustenance. But he never submitted to the powers of Morgoth and allowed them to rule him. On the other hand the nine willingly embraced the rings of power and most probably surrendered their will to the rings and thus indirectly allowed Sauron to control their very spiritual bodies.
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While I'm not sure I entirely agree with Saurreg's idea that the wraiths were entirely a different breed of creature, I find this idea of the difference between the willingness and acceptance of the Nazgul and Hurin to be interesting. However, I'm not entirely sure what to make of it.
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The fact that Húrin somehow survived for 28 impossibly harsh years upon a bleak and desolate mountainside, without food nor any natural sustinence leads me to believe that he was infused with supernatural life and power - directly from Morgoth himself .
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This is an interesting point. The Rings had a much longer time to work on their bearers than Morgoth had on Hurin. Hurin was only (I say
only 
) in Morgoth's hands for 28 years. I always believed that the Nazgul would have had their Rings as living men for a much longer period.
Good point about not having any food. That was something that had not occurred to me before and would certainly have made the whole experience much more miserable.