Exactly, 1,000 Reader.
some people you cannot get through to. They are so sure of themselves and that their viewpoint is 100% correct inasmuch the same way as they think Gandalf is 100% certain that he would have beaten the Witch King.
I reckon it's only 99% certain he would have
But there's the rub. The final 1%.........
I hark back to a point I've raised a number of times that Tolkien himself has said. The Istari are "subject to the fears and pains and weariness of earth, able to hunger and thirst and be slain" - Gandalf is not invincible, thus can be beaten. Unlikely, but not impossible.
Like David vs Goliath - oops, I mean Hereford vs Newcastle