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Old 01-08-2005, 03:59 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
Not really. It introduces tension and doubt without providing a definitive answer. The suggestion is that the Witch King had prevailed, but we do not know for certain that this would have been the case had he remained.
But doesn't it conflict with Saruman's defeat-by-staff-exploding? If that was the ultimate act of domination in Saruman's case, and afterwards he was totally defeated, why does the staff (or the destruction of it) symbolize something else in Gandalf's case?
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