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Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: Thindithron the Great wrote: After reading the passage you refer to (which does not say it was the first time they appeared in the Third Age), it's clear that Boromir's statement that the Men of Gondor have not before felt the power of the Nazgûl is erroneous, probably because the Nazgûl have not attacked in recent memory so they have been forgotten by the Gondorians. The last sightings of Nazgûl were hundreds of years before Boromir's birth- and he is no historian. Another explanation is that Tolkien simply forgot about Gondor's long history of fighting against Nazgûl when writing this chapter. It's not at all far-fetched to say that a Nazgûl led the earlier attack on Osgiliath many hundreds of years before, and therefore it is not possible to say it is "undeniably canon" that Black Uruks used Morgul blades.

It is still likely - also, they didn't know that the Witch-King was one of the Nine at that point.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 12:24, May 5, 2018 (UTC) I highly doubt the latter. But they had seen plenty of the Nazgûl anyway, and whether they knew what they were or not, they had "felt their power."