black riders, on horses or dragons?

They are indeed called Fell Beasts and there are only 9 of them in Middle Earth. They were created for one purpose 🙂

According to Tolkien's descriptions, they somehow ressembled to pterodactyl;
Really, only 9? Cool 8) I always thought there were more.

yes only nine, hence the reason arwen says "there are five wraiths behind you, where the other four are I do not know", and why Saruman says, "the nine" lol

Nah I dont mean the Nazgul (of course they're nine lol) but I mean the Fell Beasts.
I thought there'd be more.

oh I see, yeah I dodn't really think about them, maybe there are more but the nine with he wraiths are just nine evil ones?

... these creatures are very old and Sauron had the idea to use them for the Ringwraiths.

Also an interesting idea *confused*

hey hey, do u like my new avater, it totally goes with the name aniron,

anyway back to the subjest, lets just agree to disagree over something we have neither agreed or disagreed about lol

Originally posted by aniron
anyway back to the subjest, lets just agree to disagree over something we have neither agreed or disagreed about lol

good idea 🙂 that couldntve been said better 😄

So, no one seems to know where they come from, right?

I like the story of the black horses... stolen from Rohan...

cool that sounds spooky/hitorical what is it?

Well, Sauron had no horses... so he forced the people of Rohan and stole all black young horses.
The were educated near the Sea of Rhûn (they had to be young - the older ones totally panicked when they came near the Ringwraiths. The young ones too, but during all the long years they learned to control their fear) and then given to the Ringwraiths.

That's why there are nearly no black horses in Rohan 🙂

OH NO, the mighty aniron will save all animals in middle-earth

(sorry I love animals)

poor horses, but whats wrong with black horses, I guess Sauron decided that he needed style lol but why are white horses always good, u never see skewball or grey, just brown and white *sigh*

Yes me too 🙂 *hugs cat**rescues all the poor wargs and wolves*

Yes style that's it 😄 😄

White horses are always good cuz horses are generally always good 🙂

Thats sad about the film cuz they really just had brown and some white horses...
In the book, a lot of them are grey (like Arwens I think... or was it Galadriel's?).
I think it's stupid that Hasufel was brown cuz the name means "greycoat" or something like that...
*also sigh*

Poor horse 🙁

lol yeah bring the grey horses (my auntie has horses talk about lucky, i used to try and save my money for one wen i was younger but failed)

I LOVE CATS I wish my cat was still alive *sniff* he died when he was 1 (poor spike)

RIP spike...

Me too 😄

I love that saddlethings of the horses (sorry dunno what its called) looks amazing

If I had a 'fell beast,' I'd trade it for the horse any day.

But the fell beasts are far more useful for the Wraiths as they can fly... and Nazgul absolutely fear water, so that's quite practical 😄

Horses are better for working secretly - everybody feels if a fell beast flies over him.

Originally posted by turin
i agree that they are much scarier on horses, but i beleive that it is because on horses we can equate them to something real. we all know what a horse sounds and looks like, plus we can imagine being run down by one (remember Ichabod Crane). as for dragons, they are imaginary so there isnt that elimant of realism.

well said... i'm going for your reason

hello!

*also agrees*

@nazgul hello 🙂 if you want more greetings, start a thread in the welcome-forums 🙂

why are the wraiths scared of water?