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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 1290377" data-attributes="member: 307">He didn't get the chance, since Eowyn almost immediately whacked him through the "head". But had this not happened, remember the fords at Rivendell. All of the nazgul were completely physically destroyed, and yet reformed within days, whole and unharmed. I don't think the Witch-King would have been more than inconvenienced by Merry's stroke had Eowyn not been present.Merry was laid low by the black breath. There was no Witch-King explosion in the books.Other than, for example, single handedly killing the fell beast the Witch-King rode on, and having the force of will to stand and fight him at all.Man can mean either. In many cases it is used to distinguish between elf, dwarf, orc, and human, but in the context of the prophecy (given by Glorfindel, an elf) it seems clear that he doesn't mean "human", since he (an elf) declines to chase the Witch-King on the basis that no man can kill him.The hobbit harmed the Witch-King, which is always possible, no matter your sex, with a weapon forged by forces opposed to Angmar.Without Eowyn, the Witch-King would have been back on the battlefield as soon as he could get a new mount (just as the nazgul were back in action as soon as they got new mount after the ford at Rivendell). Merry helped Eowyn, but his help would have been useless without her involvement.</blockquote>