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Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her. The sword broke sparkling into many shards. The crown rolled away with a clang. Éowyn fell forward upon her fallen foe. But lo! the mantle and hauberk were empty.
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Yo! Merry bandwagon over here! See, by the time Éowyn struck her "fatal" blow, the Nazgûl had already left the scene. She was stabbing at an empty mantle.
Now I'm not saying that Éowyn wasn't a doughty shieldmaiden. Her blow would have been fatal, if the Nazgûl had been there to take it...but he wasn't.
[ June 06, 2002: Message edited by: Birdland ]