>he just so happened to be killed by an ancient sword designed specifically to kill him that a group of hobbits just happened to stumble upon in the middle of butt frick middle earth
Swords given to them by Tolkien's manifestation in middle earth himself. Thats how you write a fricking story. You put yourself in it, give your main heros the magic tools to frick up the bad guys and you frick Goldberry in the forest for the rest of your life.
Tolkien was a fricking genius, he was living in his own fanfic and people don't even realize it, he chimmed
The real answer is the Barrow swords given to them are so old, and pointless to Bombadil that he probably didn't even know, or care that they were enchanted all the way from the time Arnor fought with Angmar.
Angmar was lead by the Witch King, so Arnorian blades were forged with magic powerful enough to slay him. It can be assume it would work on the others too, but we never see the hobbits pick up arms against them in any serious manner.
I'm pretty sure there is a line or two that sort of says that Tom Specifically picked those swords out of what was there. I think he knew he's just an arse.
The Hobbits weren't exactly good fighters, especially at that early stage of the story.
The Dunedain, who had forged those blades in the first place, were killed by the forces led by the Witch King and the Witch King killed a king of Gondor who was said to be a great warrior, so it's not like having the blade is some I win button.
I'm positive he did recognize them, he just knew that fighting the entirety of the nine is suicide. Besides, his own blade should in theory be more than enough to permanently kill one if he got a good strike, problem is, they aren't living men. Fighting them is one of the last things you want to do
He was probably too busy explaining the history behind the name of some king or how singing a song about an elf who cried on some tree and now the tree cures dropsy.
That's part of it. Also, Merry is a hobbit, not a human man, so he too falls into the loophole of "no man can kill me."
I've actually been rereading The Lord Of The Rings, and I finished the encounter with the Nazgul at Weathertop the other day. Frodo, in desperation, stabs one of the Wraiths with his Barrow-blade, and it DOES hurt them some. So the blades from the barrows are damaging to the Nazgul, since that's how they were designed and enchanted.
It's a combination of Merry's Barrow-blade and Eowyn not being a man that kills the Witch-King.
homie put on a helmet and thought that he couldn't be killed by the side-b***h of some random hobo that chased him and his 8 broskis away with a simple torch........
I mean, the "Elf" part in his bloodline is from 7000 years in the past so I don't think it counts. For that matter if you're going back that far the Kings of Numenor actually had Maia in their bloodline from Luthien's mother.
Anyway the Witch King had killed stronger Dunedain warriors than Aragorn, so he likely would've be fricked.
Yeah the somber note that even Tolkien mentions in a letter is that technically Aragorn is the best of whats left, but even thats so diminished from what it was.
>"We will come," said Imrahil; and they parted with courteous words.
>"That is a fair lord and a great captain of men," said Legolas. "If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
>"And doubtless the good stone-work is the older and was wrought in the first building," said Gimli. "It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise."
>"Yet seldom do they fail of their seed," said Legolas. "And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us, Gimli."
>"And yet come to naught in the end but might-have-beens, I guess," said the Dwarf.
>"To that the Elves know not the answer," said Legolas.
I just hope that whoever makes the next LOTR film/TV series is sure to consult the Tolkien Society in order to ensure that it is an inclusive viewing experience for all.
why didn't they think to use elven magical arrowheads? would be pretty easy to take them down if you had a company of archers lighting them up one at a time.
it's a reference to the self-fulfilling prophecy of macbeth, where his actions to avoid the prophecy inadvertently cause it.
In lord of the rings, the witch king believes that "No living man may hinder me!", but he's actually referencing a prediction made ages ago by glorfindel, who said to earnur that the witch king was so strong that he would not be killed by the hand of man.
By this glorfindel means by humans in general, and this is what the witch king means when parroting the prophesy, eowyn mocks him by saying "no living man am I!". But it's not the fact that eowyn is a woman that kills him, but that the sword that merry took from the barrow back in eriador, which was forged for the wars against angmar, and specifically enchanted to be able to harm undead. If not for that particular sword, eowyn's strike would have been harmless.
>semantics
aka magic
The prophecy wasn't that a man couldn't kill him, it was that a man wouldn't kill him.
Its pronounced sword.
kind of looks like he got killed by the sword sticking in his face.
I get the feeling bookgays are pretty terrible at basic reasoning and observation
it makes sense that so many of them are trans
>he just so happened to be killed by an ancient sword designed specifically to kill him that a group of hobbits just happened to stumble upon in the middle of butt frick middle earth
Swords given to them by Tolkien's manifestation in middle earth himself. Thats how you write a fricking story. You put yourself in it, give your main heros the magic tools to frick up the bad guys and you frick Goldberry in the forest for the rest of your life.
Tolkien was a fricking genius, he was living in his own fanfic and people don't even realize it, he chimmed
Why didn't Tom Bombadil tell them that the swords were capable of defeating ringwraiths? might have saved the hobbits a fair bit of anxiety
The real answer is the Barrow swords given to them are so old, and pointless to Bombadil that he probably didn't even know, or care that they were enchanted all the way from the time Arnor fought with Angmar.
Angmar was lead by the Witch King, so Arnorian blades were forged with magic powerful enough to slay him. It can be assume it would work on the others too, but we never see the hobbits pick up arms against them in any serious manner.
I'm pretty sure there is a line or two that sort of says that Tom Specifically picked those swords out of what was there. I think he knew he's just an arse.
Yeah he's kinda being a dick there
The Hobbits weren't exactly good fighters, especially at that early stage of the story.
The Dunedain, who had forged those blades in the first place, were killed by the forces led by the Witch King and the Witch King killed a king of Gondor who was said to be a great warrior, so it's not like having the blade is some I win button.
It might have helped the Hobbits at Weathertop if they had been able to tell Aragorn that they had magic swords that could injure the black riders.
So obviously my next question is how come Aragorn didn't recognize the swords considering he is supposed to know all kinds of stuff like that
I'm positive he did recognize them, he just knew that fighting the entirety of the nine is suicide. Besides, his own blade should in theory be more than enough to permanently kill one if he got a good strike, problem is, they aren't living men. Fighting them is one of the last things you want to do
Fair enough
Hobbits were too scared to do anything, magic sword or no.
He was probably too busy explaining the history behind the name of some king or how singing a song about an elf who cried on some tree and now the tree cures dropsy.
>gollum just so happened to finally get the ring and do an uh oh stinky into the one lava pit that could destroy it
>No man can kill me
>Gandalf isn't even human
>Gandalf could have killed him
Gandalf self-identifies as a man chud
He was male presenting
More like getting stabbed in his big fat mouth.
>killed by Semitics
>those damn anti-semantic goyim
Frick. I read that as "semitics."
Time for a break from this site.
What the hell is going on here?
mile high garlic shrimp and mash
Yeah but why and how? Also who and when?
He could have built a bomb in there
this the same homie who deep fried a whole chicken in a hotel bathroom trash can then poured the grease down their drain? mf ballin
kek I need that one. I only have this other webm.
I didn't have this one so I'll post the two that haven't been posted already.
This is what happens when you don't eat kosher
reminder hes on the no fly list now kek what a moron
I always thought Merry stabbing him with the Morgul blade was what rendered him temporarily vulnerable
That's part of it. Also, Merry is a hobbit, not a human man, so he too falls into the loophole of "no man can kill me."
I've actually been rereading The Lord Of The Rings, and I finished the encounter with the Nazgul at Weathertop the other day. Frodo, in desperation, stabs one of the Wraiths with his Barrow-blade, and it DOES hurt them some. So the blades from the barrows are damaging to the Nazgul, since that's how they were designed and enchanted.
It's a combination of Merry's Barrow-blade and Eowyn not being a man that kills the Witch-King.
where did merry get a morgul blade? I thought it was a rohan blade, part of his regalia
Yeah that's my bad, it wasn't a morgul blade
galadriel gave him and pippin the swords
in the books, they get them from tom bombadil or from a barrow den or something
cool it with the anti-semantics
>semenantics
better than dying from eating spoiled milk
homie put on a helmet and thought that he couldn't be killed by the side-b***h of some random hobo that chased him and his 8 broskis away with a simple torch........
homies eatin burnt cow shit? wut?
I'd sooner eat the cow shit patties tbh
actually in the book, Merry's magic dagger opens the door for Éowyn to kill the Witch king by breaking the spell that made him immortal.
does this mean that Aragorn could’ve killed him since he was a man-elf hybrid?
I mean, the "Elf" part in his bloodline is from 7000 years in the past so I don't think it counts. For that matter if you're going back that far the Kings of Numenor actually had Maia in their bloodline from Luthien's mother.
Anyway the Witch King had killed stronger Dunedain warriors than Aragorn, so he likely would've be fricked.
Yeah the somber note that even Tolkien mentions in a letter is that technically Aragorn is the best of whats left, but even thats so diminished from what it was.
>"We will come," said Imrahil; and they parted with courteous words.
>"That is a fair lord and a great captain of men," said Legolas. "If Gondor has such men still in these days of fading, great must have been its glory in the days of its rising."
>"And doubtless the good stone-work is the older and was wrought in the first building," said Gimli. "It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise."
>"Yet seldom do they fail of their seed," said Legolas. "And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us, Gimli."
>"And yet come to naught in the end but might-have-beens, I guess," said the Dwarf.
>"To that the Elves know not the answer," said Legolas.
>back in my day
Its like if boomers lived for hundreds of years...
anyone could as long as he got shanked with magical elven blades first
>killed by semantics
apparently the sword the hobbit hit him in the leg with was magical as well
The implication is that a trans woman wouldn't have been able to kill him. Tolkien was a chudcel
cool it with the anti semantism
I just hope that whoever makes the next LOTR film/TV series is sure to consult the Tolkien Society in order to ensure that it is an inclusive viewing experience for all.
>A brief introduction to Transgender realities in The Lord of the Rings
hmm
What if someone named “Noman” tried killing him, would he be successful
why didn't they think to use elven magical arrowheads? would be pretty easy to take them down if you had a company of archers lighting them up one at a time.
If it was made today, Aragorna Da True Kween could have killed this cis male shitlord.
Why didn’t the Eagles just pick him up and drop him from the sky? The Eagles aren’t men
wraiths can't reach terminal velocity unfortunately.
Big wing snake
The Fellbeasts the Nazgul ride would easily be a match for one of the noble Eagles in combat
Frick
>*killed by semitics
This scene is proof that LotR was just protocapeshit.
it's a reference to the self-fulfilling prophecy of macbeth, where his actions to avoid the prophecy inadvertently cause it.
In lord of the rings, the witch king believes that "No living man may hinder me!", but he's actually referencing a prediction made ages ago by glorfindel, who said to earnur that the witch king was so strong that he would not be killed by the hand of man.
By this glorfindel means by humans in general, and this is what the witch king means when parroting the prophesy, eowyn mocks him by saying "no living man am I!". But it's not the fact that eowyn is a woman that kills him, but that the sword that merry took from the barrow back in eriador, which was forged for the wars against angmar, and specifically enchanted to be able to harm undead. If not for that particular sword, eowyn's strike would have been harmless.