Khamûl, the Lord of Rhûn❤️

(Context, credit, and source below poll.)

Today's poll is based on this thread with notable principles @penny-anna, @elodieunderglass, @elanorpam, and @earhartsease. All of the options above are paraphrased from their original answers.

The full original question:

Can I please ask for your top five theories on why the Ringwraiths become so much more powerful over the course of the LotR trilogy? By the end of the books a single Ringwraith holds an army of 6000 men in paralysing dread from a height of a mile, they're dismaying hosts of men, etc. And in the beginning, they're easily defeated by "jumping behind a tree," "pretending to be in a different room," "getting on a little boat," "man with a stick on fire," etc.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci~💍✨

Nazgûl by Gabriel Gómez Almenzar

(AU) The Witch-King Tar-Míriel 

"No man can kill me." _________________________________________________________

@merilles made me feral about the idea of Tar-Míriel being the Witch-King of Angmar so I had to draw it

[...] but the sun now climbing toward the South was veiled in the reeks of Mordor, and through a threatening haze it gleamed, remote, a sullen red, as if it were the ending of the day, or the end maybe of all the world of light.

Flood at the Ford of Bruinen

The ✨️Witch King✨️

Éowyn and the Witch-king of Angmar by Alan Lee

The Nazgul: Khamul and the Witch-king of Angmar. Still alive but worn down by powers they should not have had and very close to becoming wraiths.

He's just so tired of everyone: his master that won't shut up about his crush and stupid co.workers, give him a little break. This is all about stealth Khamul! STEALTH!

Anyway, there will be more of the Nazgul and their quest to find the one Ring.

The Hunt for the Ring by John Howe

The Meeting On The Turret Stairs~💀🖤

Nazgul by Alan Marson

“Nazgûl”

Day 18 - Saddle

“A great black shape against the fires beyond loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair.”

Quick study of an illustration by Alan Lee.