Noun

(Nazgul)

An evil force which heedlessly destroys everything in its path, and appears like a horseman dressed all in black.

* 2007 , Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer , p. 55:

The West Hampstead studio flat looks like the Nazgul have just thundered through it

* 2011 , Kristin Hannah, Night Road , p. 282:

The last thing she wanted was for Zach to come storming out of the house like a Nazgul , telling her to get the hell away from his daughter.

* 2012 , Tom Holt, You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps , p. 133:

There's three blokes who look like the Nazgul in pinstripes, and a skinny hatchetfaced bird who keeps saying “Well?” at me every time she asks me a question and I don't answer her inside half a second.

Noun

(en noun)

* {{cite-usenet

, year=1994 , author=Chiaroscuro , group=rec.games.mud.misc , title=Re: ColdMUD, interesting career(class,guild)-systems, and thoughts about mudding , link=https://groups.google.com/forum/

!original/rec.games.mud.misc/ozUJIvOM9i4/OxPkRTQXPe0J

, text= (On Lost Souls there is a Ringwraith guild; Nazguls are members at levels 26-29.) , prefix=

}}

* {{cite-usenet

, year=1994 , author=The Nowhere Man , group=rec.games.roguelike.nethack , title=Re: Only 9 Nazguls? (was: Ascension (long)) , link=https://groups.google.com/forum/

!original/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/7X4FsjFCF0A/7JUZWRtfiNwJ

, text=In the Touist quest, there was a polymorph trap on the first level, and one of the non-peaceful buggers polyed into a Nazgul (ugh!). , prefix=

}}

* {{cite-usenet

, year=1999 , author=Jonathan Ellis , group=rec.games.roguelike.moria , title=Re: unique version of moria , link=https://groups.google.com/forum/

!original/rec.games.roguelike.moria/x6Ogy1UPhaM/ewN89cD2HgIJ

, googleid= , text=AFAIK Moria itself has never had uniques, though some variants do (Morgul has the nine Nazguls , for instance) or artifacts. , prefix=

}}

* {{cite-usenet

, year=2001 , author=Pat Gunn , group=rec.games.roguelike.angband , title=Re: [Pern] YASD (

$# Nazguls)

, link=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.games.roguelike.angband/x71c9608XTI/NlqOXASOlmsJ , text=Scrolls of mass genocide, scrolls of teleport, and a kick-ass bow generally are prerequisites for killing Nazguls in Pernband. , prefix=

}}

* {{cite-usenet

, year=2000 , author=Fuzzy , group=rec.games.mud.misc , title=AD: [rom] Dawn of Empires - mud.dawnofempires.com , link=https://groups.google.com/forum/

!original/rec.games.mud.misc/uHg0JixRmzA/bb9u5DlQVaoJ

, text=Soulcrusher established his power in Valhalla itself where he trained the Nazguls and built a guardian to protect his privacy. , prefix=

}}

* {{cite-usenet

, year=2002 , author=Matthew Murray , group=rec.games.roguelike.angband , title=Short Bow of the Nazgul , link=https://groups.google.com/forum/

!original/rec.games.roguelike.angband/ki2QXEOWkUU/SrbWOmLgvjMJ

, text=While poking around on level 20, I came across an object I've never seen before, a Short Bow of the Nazgul (x2) (-7,-7) {cursed}. , prefix=

}}

Noun

(en noun)

Figuratively, a person who is loyal as if bound or entranced to a rock and roll band, group or organization.

*1976 , Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada , p192

*:It is twisted out of shape and used for base purposes by the ringwraiths , the bent ones among the intellectuals, for purposes that are transient...

*1982 , William Ready, Files on Parade: A Memoir , 1982, p231,

*:...or shandy quaffers at tennis with Joan Hunter-Dunn, even though many of them are mere ringwraiths of the Thomson Empire.

*2005 , Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV p9

*:This book, then, is a sort of tribute: an ode to the Himalaya of heavy rock, a paganish take on rock and roll, ringwraiths , and the iconic fetish of the gatefold LP."