Editing Nazgûl (section)

=== Gradual incarnation ===

Steve Walker, a Tolkien scholar,<!--http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/905-Power-of-Tolkien-Prose.php--> writes that the story gives the Ringwraiths credibility through a "gradual incarnation of bodiless presence". Little by little, in his view, Tolkien increases the reader's insight into their nature, starting with Black Riders who are "spies more human than diabolical", rather than developing their character. Walker sees this as appropriate: the Nazgûl's main weapons are psychological, namely fear and despair. He writes that the progressive revelation of their capabilities, and their "escalation of steeds" from horses to fell beasts, builds up in the reader's mind an "increasingly infernal vision".<ref name="Walker2009">{{cite book |last=Walker |first=Steve C. |title=The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-Earth's Magical Style |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zaq_AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 |date=2009 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |isbn=978-0230101661 |pages=23–24}}</ref>