Morgul-blade

A Morgul-blade is a magical, poisonous dagger used by Ringwraiths in Middle-earth. After it tastes flesh, the dagger breaks, leaving a shard of the blade in its victim. The remaning blade soon turns to dust, and the shard works it way through the body to the heart.

History
Only two Ringwraiths used a Morgul-blade: The Witch-King of Angmar and his lieutenant, Morgomir. At Weathertop, during a journey to Rivendell with the One Ring, the Hobbit Frodo Baggins was stabbed with a Morgul-blade by the leader of the Nazgûl.

A fragment of the blade remained within the wound of Frodo, working its way toward his heart and threatening to turn Frodo into a wraith. Elrond was able to remove the shard and heal the wound, but each year on the anniversary of his stabbing from the Morgul-Blade Frodo became seriously ill. Only his eventual departure to Eldamar offered a permanent cure.

Athelas (or Kingsfoil) is known to slow the poisonous effect of the Morgul-blade, though true healing (usually Elven healing) is necessary in order to fully cure a victim. This remedy is also known to heal other Mordor-asociated illnesses, like the Black Breath of the Ringwraiths.

Another victim of a Morgul-blade was Boromir, the eleventh Steward of Gondor (not the Boromir of Frodo's company). He eventually died of his wound but did not become a wraith.

In Rise of the Witch-King, Captain Carthaen was stabbed with a Morgul-blade by Morgomir and became Karsh the Whisperer, a wraith that journeyed across the Northern lands hunting for the enemies of the Witch King.

It should be noted that, in the same game, victims were turned into Barrow-wights. Though they are not technically the same thing as lesser wraiths, they are close enough in that both become dark, corrupt cursed creatures in a state worse than death.



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