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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heathen72" data-source="post: 5493421" data-attributes="member: 7029">Well said. And interestingly in this case, it was that the Lord of Nazgul thought himself invulnerable to anything less than a Maia or a Balrog that led to his being killed by Eowyn and Merry. He actually taunts Eowyn with that fact, so you can only imagine he totally <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> himself when he found out that she was a woman and all his certainty left him.It is not so much a case of the execution of the prophecy hanging on a legalistic technicality, and more a reliance on a sort of ambiguity within it - which the best prophecies do. This one does not say that he will be killed by a woman, which is restrictive. It says he can be killed by no man. As Danny says, there is a lot of wiggle room in that!FInally, it is the nature of prophecies to make more sense after the event. But if you can have it make more sense in a cool way - for the players to go 'Of course!!' then all the better.</blockquote>

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