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Originally posted by ItsAllMerryToMe
merry couldnt have killed the king wraith...its not possible..the king wraith could only be killed by a women...and it doesnt look like eowyn cause she had to dress like a man...and used a fake name... merry stabs him in the foot and then eowyn swings her sword where the head would be since hes invisible...and then after the king wraith is killed they go into shadow and are brought into the house of healing...but in the peticular picture...its of merry crying when theoden dies....lol...but it is infact eowyn not pippin

It is NOT true that the Witch-King could only be killed by a woman. Glorfindel said the Witch-King would not fall 'by the hand of man'

Merry, who struck the important blow with one of few weapons that could actually hurt the Witch-King, as Tolkien describes in detail in the same chapter, is not a man, he is a Hobbit.

All that said... please do not use this thread as a discussion area!

yes...but the king wraith can still only be Killed by a woman...dont get me wrong im sure other beings can hurt him...but he can not actually die unless the stroke is by a women...that was emphasized in it...then they both have to go to the house of healing for coming in contact with the king wraith...but i will repeat...eowyn is the one who actually kills the wraith

i just noticed something... in that picture the upright character has an elfin brooch on... so unless eowyn has one of those i don't think it's her

all i no is that in that picture if it is merry and pippin then it has to be after the battles...when merry reaches gondor...cause that is the only place they meet....when pippin recovers merry and brings him to the house of healing...otherwise it has to be eowyn...broach or no broach....its just the way it is...trust me...lol

hmm, can we do what ush asked us to do and take the discussion somewhere else?

No! Merry deals the important blow, Eowyn just twats it in the head afterwards. Which blow killed it is debatable, but as Tolkien expressly describes, only a sword like the one Merry carried could have done so much damage to the otherwise invulnerable Witch-King! And nowhere is it ever said in the books that only a woman could kill the Witch-King. It is only said that he will not die 'at the hand of man'.

Closing this thread- discuss the subject elsewhere if you want.