Question about the Witch King in LOTR

[DM_Matt]

I was disappointed by RotK's Eowyn scene as well. It lost alot of its power because you didn't see what it cost to kill the Witchking. In the book, Eowyn was laid out and you weren't sure she was alive until Prince Imrahil proved it so. I really wanted to see Eomer ride up and look down to see his fallen king, then notice his fallen sister, and become enraged.

Merry should have been talking to King Theoden as he died weeping. The scene in the book is much more moving and powerful than the scene in the movie.

In the movie, you would have thought the worst wound suffered for killing the Witchking was a broken arm. Merry was in the last battle before the Black Gates, he should have been laid up suffering from the "black breath".

The Nazgul weren't well-developed in the film. It was hard to see their power. The flying steeds the Nazgul rode seemed stronger than the Nazgul themselves. Very disappointing IMO.

Furthermore, they kept the energy feedback thing that happens when the Witch-King gets hit for when Merry hit him, but, apparently beucase they had to cut the houses of healing scene, it inexplicably does not happen when Eowyn hits him.

BTW, my thoughts on seeing the scene:
Sneak Attack by Flanking!
Dying Witch-King: "Damn those excessively-literal prophessssssssssiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeees.........."

 

[Mytholder]

There's something really similar to the 'No man can hinder me' in MacBeth. I can't remember the exact line, but the circumstances and the line are very similar.

Which is exactly where Tolkien got it. Both the Witch-king's death and the march of the ents were basically reactions to Macbeth. Tolkien loved the "no man of woman born" and "when Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane" bits, but was annoyed by what he saw as Shakespear's shoddy development (respectively, the prophecy refers to a man born by Caesarian section, and an army wearing bits of bark and leaves). So, when he wrote LOTR, he bloody well had a real forest coming to Dunsinane/Isengard.

 

[Welverin]

Furthermore, they kept the energy feedback thing that happens when the Witch-King gets hit for when Merry hit him, but, apparently beucase they had to cut the houses of healing scene, it inexplicably does not happen when Eowyn hits him.

It did look like Eowyn suffered some sort of harm, though it seem to bother her that long, more a shock than anything else.

 

[Storm Raven]

Which is exactly where Tolkien got it.

That's partially where Tolkien got it. He mostly got it from the same sources that Shakespeare got his inspiration: Celtic and Norse legends in which such prophecies were common.