In reply to Birdland (and Mithadan):
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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.
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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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Well, if she was stabbing at nothingness, why did her sword break? Surely it shattered against his being or the spell that knit him together.
And what was holding the crown above the mantle? The mantle was empty AFTER she stabbed him, AFTER he had fallen. The mantle still followed the form of his shoulders as she drove the sword.
The Lord of the Nazgûl is STILL invisible - he's still there, described as he was earlier:
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Upon it sat a shape, black-mantled, huge and threatening. A crown of steel he bore , but between rim and robe naught was there to see, save only a deadly gleam of eyes: the Lord of the Nazgûl.
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He was still there AFTER Merry stabbed him behind the knee - he cried out and his stroke went wide.
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But suddenly he too stumbled forward with a cry of bitter pain, and his stroke went wide, driving into the ground. Merry's sword had stabbed him from behind, shearing through the black mantle, and passing up beneath the hauberk had pierced the sinew behind his mighty knee.
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I can't afford to have doubts about this! I've got a painting in the works! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]