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English
Etymology
From ring + wraith, coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as a fantasy character in The Lord of the Rings.
Noun
Ringwraith (plural Ringwraiths)
- (fantasy) Anyone who keeps a magical ring, and is enslaved thereby, and may also be rendered invisible and immortal thereby.
2006, J.C. Sillesen, No Return, page 40:A party of four at one of my stations included a pretty creditable Scarlett O'Hara in her famous green velvet `curtains' gown, a fairy princess complete with fancy airbrushed wings, a man dressed as either a Ringwraith or the Grim Reaper (I guessed from the absence of a sickle that he was probably a Ringwraith), and George Washington.
2007, Mark Stephen Smith, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning, page x:I had written a number of short stories in the Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents vein, and a couple of fantasy novels that explored the premise of modernized 'Ringwraiths' invading a 1986 Alabama high school."
- 2007. Jerry Dowlen, "Lio Lios", 2007, p27
- Like the Ringwraiths,
- I need your acacia unfurled,
- Enabling my dream-stuns
- Of fizzing mauve whirls.
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