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Old 01-06-2005, 01:32 PM   #50
Essex
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As for having to be mighty to defeat him, Aragorn chased him off with a bit of wood and he was killed by a woman in armed conflict. The argument that Merry helped Eowyn is weak, and how magical was her sword.
1/ The Nazgul at the dell near Weathertop were not only beaten back by Fire (which was the state the 'bit of wood' was in) but by Frodo's utterance of the line 'O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!'
As Aragorn himself says of the WK
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More deadly to him was the name of Elbereth
2/ What's wrong in being killed by a Woman?

3/ The argument of Merry's sword is ANYTHING but weak. It is one of the most important central actions in the whole Trilogy. Eowyn's sword did not need to be magical.
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So passed the sword of the Barrow-downs, work of Westernesse. But glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the North-kingdom when the Dúnedain were young, and chief among their foes was the dread realm of Angmar and its sorcerer king. No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will.
'nuff said.
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