Do the Ringwraiths feel pain? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

alatar · 05-18-2010, 02:58 PM

What's amazing is that the Nazgul are driven off Weathertop (or, with their mission accomplished, did they just cede the ground?) by fire. Gandalf is known for pyrotechnics. You'd think that this would give the Grey/White Wizard an edge when facing one or more of the Nine.

Morthoron · 05-18-2010, 05:09 PM

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What's amazing is that the Nazgul are driven off Weathertop (or, with their mission accomplished, did they just cede the ground?) by fire.

No, I don't believe they merely receded into the shadows. Frodo's blade of Westernesse came dangerously close to extinguishing the WiKi. Or at least that is what is implied.

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Gandalf is known for pyrotechnics. You'd think that this would give the Grey/White Wizard an edge when facing one or more of the Nine.

Gandalf did have an edge. He drove several wraiths off Weathertop with pyrotechn...

Oh. Wait. You're being facetious. Never mind.

alatar · 05-19-2010, 11:52 AM

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No, I don't believe they merely receded into the shadows. Frodo's blade of Westernesse came dangerously close to extinguishing the WiKi. Or at least that is what is implied.

Sorry, I was speaking of the Peter Jackson movies. Aragorn does not fight the Nazgul at Weathertop in the books (unless that part was written between the lines). In the movie, Frodo just gets off a whimper and not a stab.

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Gandalf did have an edge. He drove several wraiths off Weathertop with pyrotechn...

Oh. Wait. You're being facetious. Never mind.

Nope. Not in the movies. Gandalf did use his holy flashlight to drive away the Winged Nazgul on the Pelennor Fields, but his batteries ran out when the Witch King later came a knocking.

If only he could learn that nifty fireball spell of Saruman's...

Rhod the Red · 06-27-2010, 02:14 AM

At the time of death, I doubt they did generally. They were halfway between life and death, and basically ghosts in corporeal form.

Nerwen · 06-27-2010, 04:38 AM

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At the time of death, I doubt they did generally. They were halfway between life and death, and basically ghosts in corporeal form.

Except... see the quote given by Inziladun at #2.

Rhod the Red · 06-27-2010, 04:44 AM

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Except... see the quote given by Inziladun at #2.

Easy to explain; it was a killing blow

Nerwen · 06-27-2010, 07:11 AM

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Easy to explain; it was a killing blow

Oh, I see: you mean they didn't feel pain otherwise.

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