Remember the mysterious riders in black in AtD?

[Mark Kohut]

In THE LORD OF THE RINGS
There are 9 Black Riders, also called Nazgul. They were Men, but were corrupted when Sauron gave them rings of power. 

 
Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernity by Jerome McGann. Princeton, 196 pp, £25.00, July 1993, ISBN 0 691 06985 9
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