Quote:
Originally Posted by mhagain
Gollum definitely met Sauron in person, he knew how many fingers he had.
|
But the Nazgūl necessarily didn't, exactly. Maybe Sauron indeed didn't hand out the memo.
Anyway, as it is explained in, I believe,
The Treason of Isengard, or maybe even in the
Unfinished Tales, the Nazgūl didn't really know what to make of the Hobbits and were kinda afraid of Frodo, thinking that he was some super-powerful creature who had been able to avoid them very cunningly and when he (unlike 99% of the population of Middle-Earth) didn't only just run away screaming when facing the Witch-King, but even attacked him AND hit him, they freaked out and retreated from Weathertop. Sure, they considered it a "succesful assassination-poisoning attempt", but they were probably not very keen on repeating the experience.