Noun: Nazgul
| Singular | Nazgul |
| Plural | Nazgul; Nazguls |
Sample Sentences
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The West Hampstead studio flat looks like the Nazgul have just thundered through it […] [2007, Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer, page 55:]
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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. [2011, Kristin Hannah, Night Road, page 282:]
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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. [2012, Tom Holt, You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps, page 133:]
Nouns inflected like Nazgul
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From nazgûl (“ringwraith”) in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional language Black Speech, a compound of nazg (“ring”) and gûl (“wraith; evil spirit”). Tolkien thought it “probable” that the former term nazg was “actually derived from” Irish nasc (“link, bond”), though not borrowed consciously. For the latter term gûl compare ghoul. See: Irish Nouns '
nasc'.