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ok, let's go down the film only route.
as I said before, pippin states that the mightiest warrior can be felled by one arrow.
No one gets near the witch king to fight him. if you've got a fell beast to attack with, I can see why he hasn't been felled by an arrow!
the WK is powerful yes, and can use his 'magic' to break gandalf's staff. But is he invincible? I put it to you that he is not.
Just because the WK is mighty, why can't he be felled by a sword? If gandalf got stabbed with a sword, wouldn't it have hurt him as well? no matter how mighty or who ever gandalf may have slayed beforehand, including the Balrog, he is still able to be killed by a sword. If pippin hadn't stabbed the orc in minas tirith, don't you think that gandalf would have died? Ok, he can deflect a blast from Saruman, but that's, how can I put it, magic deflecting magic. Didn;t saruman die from a stab to the back (proceded by a lovely somersault onto a nasty loking wheel)
Also remember that Merry crept up on him from behind, unseen. Perhaps comparible to a flank attack or the like in battle. He was OVERLOOKED. That is one of the reasons why the witch king was defeated.
So again, I ask why can't the witch king be killed with a sword (or dagger) to the back of the leg to down him, and a blow to the head with a sword? Just because he is powerful does not mean he is invincible.
NO ONE is invincible in middle-earth, even Sauron. Haven't we learnt that much from the movies?
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