Names of the Nazgul

[Paviel]

Does anyone know where the folks at Decipher got the names that they gave to eight of the Nazgul in the TCG (Attea, Lemenya, etc.)? I didn't think that Tolkien ever gave the Nazgul names, and I'm 99% sure that Peter Jackson didn't either.

Were the names just made up for the card game?

Edit: I did a bit of "research" online, and came up with this:

I found that those aren't actually names, and are more like ranks. Ulaire Attea, for example, is Quenya for "Second Ringwraith." The others are "Third Ringwraith" through "Ninth Ringwraith," though I don't remember off hand which is which.

It almost makes me wonder what "First Ringwraith" would be in Quenya. I can understand why they called him the Witch King instead of some arcane Quenya name-that's-actually-a-rank, but I would be interested to know anyway.

[bibfortuna25]

Ulaire Minea would be "First Nazgul" in Quenya.

[dmaz]

Regarding the Witch-King's name, from Tolkien Gateway:

"'Witch' most likely coming from his background in sorcery, and "king" after his establishment of the realm of Angmar in 1300."

There is a lot of literary material regarding the Witch-King, and stuff about him in the trilogy and in the Silmarillion.

Regarding the other Nazgul:
Khamûl is Ulaire Attea's actual name. He is the one who is initially in the shire looking for Frodo: "I come from yonder. Have you seen Baggins?"
He's an Easterling, and the second in command to the Witch King.

Other than "The Witch-King" none of the other Nazgul are actually named in the material that is actually from Tolkien.

I don't really care too much, but for those that are interested in going deeper, Iron Crown Enterprises made names and profiles for them, for the purposes of role-playing.
http://www.inmivoz.com/profiles-9-nazg%C3%BBl

While the names are made up, the profiles fit, as best they can, what we do know about the nine (example: we know three of them were of Numenor).

I think the most entertaining of these things is that Otsea is a girl hahaha. Sexy Nazgulette.

[dmaz]

Also, if you were to count in Elvish from One to Nine:

Er, Atta, Nelde, Kinta, Lempe, Enque, Otso, Tolto, Nerte

Look familiar?

[ANGRY]

Well. I didn't know that before. That is pretty cool.

(And Witch-King sounds cooler than Minea. By far.)

[dmaz]

Lemenya...I'm not wearing any panties!

[bibfortuna25]

So THAT'S why he's so eager to stick his Blade Tip in Frodo.

[simplegarak]

You'll notice that in set 11 (http://lotrtcgwiki.com/wiki/set11) they put subtitles to all the Nazgul so you'd know which one was which number (second of the nine riders, etc)

If Otsea was a girl... so many jokes to make about the name typo. "Oh but you don't see any of the MALE Nazgul getting misspelled!  More of that patriarchal oppression by Sauron!"

[jdizzy001]

Regarding the Witch-King's name, from Tolkien Gateway:

"'Witch' most likely coming from his background in sorcery, and "king" after his establishment of the realm of Angmar in 1300."

There is a lot of literary material regarding the Witch-King, and stuff about him in the trilogy and in the Silmarillion.

Regarding the other Nazgul:
Khamûl is Ulaire Attea's actual name. He is the one who is initially in the shire looking for Frodo: "I come from yonder. Have you seen Baggins?"
He's an Easterling, and the second in command to the Witch King.

Other than "The Witch-King" none of the other Nazgul are actually named in the material that is actually from Tolkien.

I don't really care too much, but for those that are interested in going deeper, Iron Crown Enterprises made names and profiles for them, for the purposes of role-playing.
http://www.inmivoz.com/profiles-9-nazg%C3%BBl

While the names are made up, the profiles fit, as best they can, what we do know about the nine (example: we know three of them were of Numenor).

I think the most entertaining of these things is that Otsea is a girl hahaha. Sexy Nazgulette.

This is correct. The witch king and khamul are the only ring wraiths with tolkein approved names. Gw also gave them names, or titles mostly.