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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/onering.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Lazy Nazgul
It's also interesting that the Gaffer, Farmer Maggot and Butterbur all stand face to face with a Nazgul and are undaunted (they all give the wraith attitude, basically), whereas later the Nazgul are able to strike sheer terror into soldiers of Gondor just by flying ovehead. Obviously the wraiths are able to appear, or be, more or less terrifying, as they wish. The BBC dramatization of LotR takes note of this difference, and has the wraiths speak in a "normal" voice in the encounter with Maggot, e.g., but in a more raspy sinister voice on Weathertop and in a shrieking call when they fly over Frodo, Sam and Gollum.
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