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According to the prophecy, could a hobbit have killed the Witchking all by his lonesome?
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To reiterate the phantom’s point, which I believe to be the key to this issue, the prophesy is not prophesy, rather it is foresight. Glorfindel saw how the Witch-king would be slain, and spoke accordingly. The prophesy therefore did not contain an impediment to any person or means to dispatch the Witch-king. In other words, no ”loopholes”. If Glorfindel saw a man do it, then he would not have said “no man”. Any discussion of how likely a hobbit is to kill the Witch-king, considering their relative power is merely conjecture and irrelevant to this specific question.