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What I've always wondered is the question why the Nazghul are nine and not seven, because seven is the number of Evil, this can't be the reason...
Do you know the meaning of the Number Nine?

i actually read all that.....i dont understand most of it but meh....

i read all of that too and.....damn Exa you've got one bitching brain on you.

Thanks for the very helpful and educational post. I forgot about the previous thread about the numbers.

Do you know what meh actually means?! lol! its means: verbal shrug of the shoulders lol

That's why she said it

you know....i would never have known that

Thats why i said it......

um that was to much to take in this early in the mourning, exa, props to you!

I didn't expect a answer THAT long!

you didnt? i did

I just think nine appealed to Tolkien.

I didn't, also I didn't expect passage from the Bible, because I wasn't asking about what the number nine means but why the Nazghul are with nine, I expected to hear some explanation about the rings and to who they were given...

Yes...what our sage said....^^^

: )

Sounds to me like the number Nine has something to do with the celestial/astral world...

How that?

Afaik the only number appearing in connection with the 'astral world' of Arda is again seven

And
Arent we kinda overinterpretating things bag

The answer lies within the entire Tolkien verse: "One Ring To Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them, One Ring to Bring Them All, and IN The Darkness Bind Them".

The line from the verse reads " Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die". The Nine were once great kings of old, so Sauron the deceiver gave to them nine rings of power, and watched as each fell into darkness.

There is no significance to the number 9.

Exa, you know some things about the Bible. I didn't read it so I don't follow. For me, it's physics and biology that're my world. lol

BD- yes but why to nine men, why did tolkien say nine? and wasnt one a woman?

A woman Nazgul... sounds sexy

In the Decipher-version, yes, but Tolkien says nothing about it

I didn't know that

how could he? Even if he could, nobody would hear him up here no2

When I'm dead, I'll ask him

I don't think anyone's said this: in mythology (I forget which exactly), three is thought to be a lucky number and nine -- or thrice three -- a magical one.

Nine also has some spiffy mathematical stuff going for it, which escapes me temporarily.