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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zander" data-source="post: 1286232" data-attributes="member: 1364"><p>I could be mistaken but I didn't see Merry attacking the Witch King. It looked like all Eowyn's doing. In the book, both in the narrative describing the fight and in Aragorn's words in a later chapter, Eowyn would have lost and been killed had it not been for Merry. IIRC Aragorn says that Eowyn was not the equal of the Witch King "in mind or body". So the fact that she was not a "living man" (to quote the nazgul in the book) was not the reason she succeeded. If anything, Tolkien was making an anti-PC statement, not a PC one (in as much as concepts such as PC were understood when LotR was written). By altering Merry's role, Jackson has made it PC. I'm hoping to see the film again tonight and will double check Merry's contribution.</p></blockquote><p></p>