She didn't know that Theoden had been killed, she knew that he had been thrown by his horse, and she was trying to drive the Witch-king away from him.<P>Most seasoned warriors laugh at war and battle, since they know that they will eventually die anyway, they also just laugh at their death. I would consider Eowyn a warrior, and she came to that realization a while back. She would be laughing at the Witch-king because, for the first time in her life, she had been treated completely as a man. The Witch-king didn't know she was a woman until she told him, and I think that Eowyn could have been laughing because of that also.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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