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Originally Posted by alatar
I guess so, as even the Nazgul can wear clothing. Odd that Frodo's clothing, when he wears the Ring, disappears with him.
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The nazgul do have material bodies. They are faded into invisibility, visible only in the Shadow World, but material nonetheless.
Frodo's clothing disappears with him because he wears the Ring. Nazgul clothing remains visible because the nazgul
do not wear their Rings - Sauron keeps the Nine himself. When the nazgul desire to go around invisible, they have to remove the clothing (as in UT-Hunt for the Ring), because Sauron doesn't deign to lent them their Rings.
I fully agree with
Morthoron about the wights. Most likely they were Houseless Elves inhabiting material corpses / bones - not their own, but those of the long-dead Dunedain.
I wonder what the Wights wanted to do with the three hobbits, what was all this dark rite about - maybe they wanted to get some fresh corpses to inhabit?
And why didn't the Wights treat Frodo the same way they treated the rest of the hobbits? Was it because he was caught the last, or was it because the Wights felt he had the Ring and were going to deliver him to the Witch-King?