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Old 10-06-2003, 05:55 PM   #31
Eladar
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Eladar, the reason that it is "just no" is that if it had actually been a worthless stroke, Tolkien would have made sure to say so.
Why do you make that assumption? It seems to me that Tolkien likes to throw twists and turns into his stories. It makes it a more believable history/mythology.

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Merry stabbed him, seconds passed and he was still existing, he rose again to smash Eowyn, she put a sword in his face, he died and the sword shattered.
I don't believe this is exactly what the book says:

But suddenly he too stumbled forward with a cry of bitter pain, and his strole went wide, driving into the ground. Merry's sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind his mighty knee.

'Eowyn! Eowyn!' cried Merry. Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her. The sward broke sparkling into many shards....

Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand. And behold! there lay his weapon, but the blade was smoking like a dry branch that has been trust in a fire; and as he watched it, it writhed and withered and was consumed


A couple of things I'd like to note:

1)The arm that Merry uses to stab the W-K goes numb. Eowyn's arm that shield arm was damaged, but her sword arm was fine.

2)Merry's sword stays in one piece, but later disolves. Eowyn's sword bursts into many pieces, but is not said to disolve.

If the WK is kept together by a spell, then a normal sword could not do damage to him. As I said earlier, without the spell he is a walking bag of dust. This guy is thousands of years old. Once the spell is completely gone, there is nothing left of him. (including his ring [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img])


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