Wrayeth
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Posted - 2007.09.09 03:53:00 -
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Edited by: Wrayeth on 09/09/2007 03:57:18
 Originally by: Sharupak
Edited by: Sharupak on 04/09/2007 13:11:39
LOTR Return of the King,
The Kings daughter defeats the Lich King. Not that I care that she beat the lich king but the "You fool no man can kill me!" Then she stabs him in the eye (Which is pretty *****in) and says "I am no man" or something to that effect.
The whole hair whip as she pulls of the helmet....The whole girl power ambiance just killed it, I wouldnt supprise me if there were takes of her killing the lich king and giving the little cheer leader hiccup!
Like when the lich king was running through his check list of things to be invincible from,
1. Tigers - Check
2. Elephants - check
3. Squirells - check (He has seen national lampoons christmas vacation, those things can jump at you from a christmas tree and attack your face)
4. Man - check
5. Woman - Ahh **** it
Either that, or he missed a guideline in the magical invincibilities law book that "Man and woman must be defined separately for any defense charm to be protected by either eventhough they are the exact same race"
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That scene in the movie irked me, as well, but for different reasons. First and foremost, when the Lord of the Nazgul removed his hood, he wasn't supposed to be wearing a helm. Rather, he was supposed to have nothing but a circlet resting atop nothingness. I was really looking forward to seeing that, but instead he had some sort of lame-ass, crudely-wrought, and overly-ornate helm.
The second thing that irked me about that scene (and the also stuff with the Lord of the Nazgul in general) was that the lines were so much stronger as Tolkien wrote them and didn't need to be rewritten. To wit:
Nazgul: "Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"
Eowyn: "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead I will smite you if you touch him."
'Nuff said.
In regards to her killing the Lord of the Nazgul, it wasn't the fact that she was a woman that made her able to kill him. Rather, it was the blade that Merry stabbed him in the back of the knee with. It was wrought in Westernesse and bore an enchantment that broke the spell keeping the ringwraith "alive". Eowyn simply finished the job.
And yes, I love my Tolkien. I even managed to slog my way through the Silmarillion, though that took many months of on-again/off-again reading.
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-Wrayeth
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