Faceless beings of fear and dread, the nine Nazgûl, or Ringwraiths, were undead servants of the Dark Lord Sauron, enslaved by the Rings of Power they wore upon their spectral fingers.

Once kings of Men, their identities have been lost, subsumed by their master's inexorable will. When word of the One Ring's return comes to Mordor, Sauron dispatches the Nine with orders to retrieve this most mighty of weapons and slay its bearer.

Borne on dark horses and shrouded in black robes, the Ringwraiths scour the lands of the Shire, in search of a Hobbit by the name of Baggins...