that is.... I shall try to split apart into two separate branches, your confusion.
Answering in the order of your comments:
I'm not at all surprised or distressed that you don't know as much as I thought about the Dark Queen. Characters are like that. I've been writing for almost 20 years, and I'm still finding things out about my oldest characters!
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was Eswen's sword forged to be able to do?
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I thought the MS was a Black Numenorean who had spirits and the like under his sway.
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Quite right. Well said, even.
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...once we kill all the living gaurds we're going to have to fight their spirits, along with all the other minions that the MS controls.
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Right again!
Your question is apt: how will the mortals be able to fight if they can't see the spirit world? They can't. They will be unable to. Of course, spirits will be unable to directly affect them, either. Therefore, the Mouth of Sauron will have only one way to deal with this: give the spirits corporal forms so that they can attack, and once the mortals have been rendered corpses, then the spirits that are powerful enough, can start having at them, as it were. (yeesh! kinda gruesome, eh?)
The Elves have it both ways, and have a clear advantage. Um, I hadn't thought of this when I went and left Uien behind. You guys could use her right about now; not waying that Lumiel and Eswen can't do some valuable damage to MS and his ilk, but Uien still would have been a good asset right about now.
Any more questions, hit me with them.