Alan Sisto

No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will.

Mary Strike, with this sword of Westerness, the one they got from the barrows, the one that Peter Jackson forgot to tell us how he got it, broke a spell that essentially held the Witch King's body together and held it to his own power, his own will.

That's what enabled him to then be killed by Eowyn Stroke, which fulfilled the prophecy of Gorphindel either way, right?

Not by the hand of man shall he fall.

By the hand of Hobbit, by the hand of woman, yes.

It does.

And if you're an orthopedic surgeon, you're like, wow, I'm going to be seeing this guy soon because he's going to rip his shoulders right out of his undead arms.

It is pretty bad, yeah.

That's always pretty incredible stuff.

In fact, we actually covered that.

You and I did that chapter.

We did, yeah.

That was a really intense moment.

So good.

It is so, so good.

And that's the thing.

I mean, his power, the power that is of the Witch King, really increased throughout the course of the book.

And Tolkien talks about this, I think, in one of the letters where he talks about by the time of the War of the Ring and by the time they besieged Minas Tirith, his power is at its maximum.

And it's far more than he had even during the early search for the ring at the time on Weathertop.

And yet, certainly, he had plenty of power there.