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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ultimatecalibur" data-source="post: 5494084" data-attributes="member: 59539">It depends entirely on your perspective. Did Eowyn and Merry kill the Witch King because they fulfilled the conditions of the prophecy or was the prophecy saying that Eowyn and Merry would kill the Witch King and that they were not Men.If its the first, then even if two generic men had tried the magic dagger to ankle/sword to head combo they would most likely have failed do to other outside forces. They may have defeated him and forced him to flee, but he would not have died in the fight.If it is the second, then if two generic men had pulled off the combo then the prophecy would have had references to those two generic men instead of Merry and Eowyn.Is "Plot Immunity" (Plot Invulnerability is probably a better term) from a prophecy actually a bad thing? Is it a bad thing when a vampire needs to be staked in order to put it down permanently? Or that you need to destroy a lich's phylactery to prevent it from coming back? No.Plot Immunity is just a tool. And just like any tool it in itself is not bad but it can be misused.</blockquote>