Re: MEPBM 'riddle help' = you guys are weak...

From: MDBench@concentric.net

Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000

On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 16:04:05 GMT, kgp8d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU
(Keith G. Parker) wrote:

>MDBench@concentric.net writes:
>>
>> On Mon, 01 Sep 1997 07:38:22 -0400, Misery <misery@foto.infi.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Show me where it says that a regular sword or weapon of steel and iron
>> >could destroy one.  Destined or not.
>> >
>> >		The Reverend Ludicrous Wack
>>
>> Ummm, READ THE RETURN OF THE KING. Eowyn put a sword through
>> the Witch King's 'face' and he died/went away/was destroyed.
>>
>> IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH?...<G>
>
>No.  I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but it also
>mentions that Merry's sword, which was forged in Numenor and
>wound about with spells for the destruction of Sauron was
>perhaps even more deadly to the Lord of the Nazgul than was
>Eowyn's blade.  But that's all speculation, and that's what you
>guys are doing as well.  KP
>--
>Keith Parker, Ph.D.         |  kgp8d@virginia.edu
>Department of Chemistry     |  http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~kgp8d
>University of Virginia      |
>Charlottesville, VA  22901  |

That's true, I believe it stated that "no more painful a blow could
have been dealt to him with any other weapon" or something like that.
But it was her sword that did him in. One of the things I like the
most about Tolkiens' books is the fact that he focuses on the story,
and not the technical details.

Talk to you soon.

Michael Bench

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Re: MEPBM 'riddle help' = you guys are weak...
MDBench@concentric.net
Mon, 01 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM 'riddle help' = you guys are weak...
kgp8d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Keith G. Parker)
Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: MEPBM 'riddle help' = you guys are weak...
MDBench@concentric.net
Mon, 01 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: MEPBM 'riddle help' = you guys are weak...
kgp8d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Keith G. Parker)
Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000