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Originally Posted by zxcvbn
If they were destroyed it isn't necessary that the NAzgul were also utterly destroyed.
As for free will, the Nazgul had it. Remember all the works of evil they did in Sauron's abscence?(Angmar, the Great Plague, Minas Morgul, running things in Mordor, sending emissaries to stir up trouble along Gondor's borders etc.)
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I think it IS necessary that the Ringwraiths were destroyed, as the only thing prolonging their lives were their Rings, and those were in turn dependent on the One Ring. So, when the One was destroyed, the power that sustained that made the Nazgul immortal departed. At which point we may safely assume they all died. After all, if Sauron survived defeat, it was at first because he was a Maia, and later on also because the Ring survived. In the case of the Nazgul (following the destruction of the Ring), neither condition applies.
Might: Thanks so much for the quotes! I had forgotten.