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The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 04-05-2003, 02:16 PM

I refer you to the quotation from Flight to the Ford above. Only a blade that pierces the Witch King (i.e. actually enters whatever passes for his flesh) will perish, although how it comes to pierce him wouldn't matter. Cutting his cloak is only sartorially, not physically, damaging.

Tolkien would indeed have noticed so obvious a discrepancy as someone's sword being destroyed and then turning up again in the very next chapter. I find it hard to believe that anyone would think such a compulsive reviser capable of so elementary an error.

[ April 05, 2003: Message edited by: The Squatter of Amon Rûdh ]

04-05-2003, 02:16 PM	#12
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	I refer you to the quotation from Flight to the Ford above. Only a blade that pierces the Witch King (i.e. actually enters whatever passes for his flesh) will perish, although how it comes to pierce him wouldn't matter. Cutting his cloak is only sartorially, not physically, damaging. Tolkien would indeed have noticed so obvious a discrepancy as someone's sword being destroyed and then turning up again in the very next chapter. I find it hard to believe that anyone would think such a compulsive reviser capable of so elementary an error. [ April 05, 2003: Message edited by: The Squatter of Amon Rûdh ] __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?