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Originally Posted by Zigūr
Indeed, you must never trust the "Lord of the Rings Wiki." It's a mess of book-lore, film material, "fanon", backstory from RPGs and amateur textual interpretation all muddled together. Note that it's too amateurish to even remember the "The" at the beginning of " The Lord of the Rings!" It's kind of like the post-Peter Jackson equivalent of one of David Day's reference books.
I generally go to the Tolkien Gateway when I need a quick hint for a reference: tolkiengateway.net I then confirm this with a primary source. |
Actually, please have a look at some other citations. He was knows as the Black Easterling, Shadow in the East second in charge, occupant of Dol Guldur, Ringwraith in the Shire who spoke, the Ringwraith most able to sense the Ring, but most susceptible to sunlight.
The only materials I can't (yet) support is that he was one of three non-Numenorean Ringwraiths.
The supplementary analysis in my post holds with the information re-cited, from other locations (plural).
I have UT, in my hand, and I quote from
The Hunt for the Ring, p. 338, Hardback, Allen & Unwin Ed.
"Now at that time the Chieftain of the ringwraiths dwelt in Minal Morgal with six companions, while the second to the Chief, Khamul the Shadow of the East, abode in Dol Guldur as Saruon's lieuteneant, with one other as his messenger"
There's his name (Tolkien did not leave them all anonymous. Presumably he just never developed their identities in narratives due to literary emphasis in the 'story he was telling'), his rank, association with Dol Guldur for a period, implications for his origin (Mortal of non-Numenorean lineage--*second* in charge).
All these materials are enough to support the textual analysis I provided, reposted, here: