XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   On 2014-10-21, Jerry Friedman  wrote:   
   > "...and then they saw a shape, moving at a great speed out of the West,   
   > at first only a black speck against the glimmering strip above the   
   > mountain-tops, but growing, until it plunged like a bolt into the dark   
   > canopy and passed high above them.  As it went it sent out a long shrill   
   > cry, the voice of a Nazgûl; but this cry no longer held any terror for   
   > them: it was a cry of woe and dismay, ill tidings for the Dark Tower.   
   > The Lord of the Ringwraiths had met his doom."   
   >   
   > So here it seems that not only was Sauron unaware that the King of the   
   > Nazgûl had died, but another one has to fly all the way from Minas   
   > Tirith to the Dark Tower to give him the news.   
      
   Interesting. I'd always assumed that this *was* the witch-king, being   
   dramatically and ostentatiously terminated, in rather the same way   
   that Sauron and Saruman were.   
      
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