stj wrote:
Somehow I had gotten the notion that the Council was confused over whether the Necromancer was Sauron, or the Chief Nazgul/Witch-king of Angmar. Judging from the quotes from the chronology apparently not.
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Actually, now that I've finally located my copy of
The Silmarillion, it does seem to say what the Tale of Years does not: that in the timeframe leading up to
The Hobbit it had been suspected that it was one of the Ringwraiths in Dol Guldur as opposed to Sauron himself.