Ghostly beings that existed more in the hidden Wraith-world than our own. The most famous of these were the Ring-wraiths, Men ensnared by Sauron's Nine Rings, but their victims, too, were transformed into wraiths.
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Actually, there is one reference to a wraith that considerably predates II 2250. This was in I 460, when Gorlim, who had betrayed Barahir and his companions to Sauron, brought a warning to Barahir's son Beren in a dream. Gorlim had already been slain at this time, and his posthumous form in Beren's dream is described as his 'wraith'. Here the word seems to be broadly synonymous with 'ghost' or 'spirit', rather than the more specific use for the later Ringwraiths and their victims. |
See also...
Dead City, King of the Nine Riders, Lord of the Nazgûl, Morgul-knives, Morgul-wounds, Nine Ringwraiths, The Ring, The Seen, The Unseen, Valley of Living Death, Wraith-king, Wraith-lord, Wraith-road, Wraith-world
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