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Originally Posted by IlfirinMelme
The title taken by the Lord of the Nazgūl in the middle of the Third Age, when he founded the northern realm of Angmar in opposition to the northern lands of the Dśnedain (Arthedain and its allies). I thought that he became witch king of angmar after he was a wraith.
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He was a wraith. It was a wraith that he was the Witch-king. In fact, he had been a wraith for LONG time before he became the king of Angmar. If we assume that he got his ring in the mid-Second Age, and that it didn't take more than a century or two to wraith-ify him (if I may be permitted a bit of errant word-making), then he was a wraith for something close to an age before Sauron decided to give him a kingdom.