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Old 09-06-2001, 11:31 AM   #16
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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/redeye.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: The Witch-king of Angmar

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> &quot;it does not prove that it allowed the witch-king's death by the hand of Eowyn.&quot;<hr></blockquote>

I must cordially disagree.

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> &quot;Her shield was shivered in many pieces, and her arm was broken; she stumbled to her knees. He bent over her like a cloud, and his eyes glittered; he raised his mace to kill. But suddenly he too stumbled forward with a cry of bitter pain, and his stroke went wide, driving into the ground.... Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle.&quot;<hr></blockquote>

Sounds to me as though Merry allowed Eowyn's final, finishing blow to occur. Had she been able to get it in without Merry's distraction, the Witch-King probably would have died anyway, but she was in no position to do so, fallen to the ground, in the direct line of fire.
Anyway, on the logical side of things, what was the point of Merry's doing that at all, if it wouldn't have made a difference? Surely you give the old man JRRT more credit than that.

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