(Of course on top of all this you add the loophole in GlorfindelвЂ™s prophecy that вЂњ not by theВ hand of man will fall.вЂќ)Д«ut EowynвЂ™s part was still very important! In one of his letters, Tolkien says that, had Sam stabbed the Witch King with his own barrow sword when on Weathertop, the result would have been the same as when Merry stabbed him: вЂњ the Wraith would have fallen down and the sword would have been destroyed.вЂќ Which is to say that it would not have killed him, and that therefore EowynвЂ™s part in the fight was essential. The swords were made specifically to fight the nazgul, and with it Merry was able to do enough вЂњmagicalвЂќ damage to the Witch King to allow EowynвЂ™s own attack to have such an effect.

This statement basically confirms and explains Aragorn and GandalfвЂ™s earlier comments. 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. Glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the North-kingdom when the Dunedain were young, and chief among their foes was the dread realm of Angmar and its sorcerer king. After Merry stabs the Witch King, he notices that the sword basically disintegrates. This all culminates in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. Later, when Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli find Merry and PippinвЂ™s swords among the pile of orc bodies, Aragorn says that the swords were вЂњ wound about with spells for the bane of Mordor.вЂќ In an older version of LotR, Gandalf even says that the barrow-swords were вЂњ the one kind of sword the Riders fear.вЂќ Learn more about his updates here: About KING GROOT Rising from under the canopy of a mysterious alien forest, Groot, the invincible master of plants and King.

The sword (a knife, really, but whatever) was taken from one of the barrows, and originally belonged to one of the Dunedain men of Cardolan (descendants of the Numenoreans). But really, IвЂ™d say it was a joint effort, because MerryвЂ™s part was very important (more so than you really understand, unless youвЂ™ve read the books.) There was nothing particularly special about where Merry stabbed the Witch King - whatвЂ™s important is what he stabbed him with.Дespite all the traveling and chaos that MerryвЂ™s gone through since he left the Shire, during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields heвЂ™s still using the sword that Tom Bombadil gave him at the Barrow Downs so many months ago. Officially, IвЂ™d say that Eowyn killed the Witch King, seeing as how she dealt the killing blow and all.

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