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Originally Posted by Essex
1/ I listnened to the director's commentary and he says that he based this scene on the book part in minas morgul where frodo is tempted to give himself away to the lord of the nazgul. So I can kind of (just about) accept this.
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"In the book, the Witch-King does not enter Minas Tirth more than a few footsteps, and then turns back and exits the Gate. Gandalf, astride Shadowfax was there. So we can say that the Witch-King was 'owned' by Gandalf, and so we decided to film a scene where the White Wizard mops the floor with the W-K. It has basis in the books..."
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2/ I also heard that posted a year or two back (!!!!) on this site that only 7 nazgul were present at the black gate at the end of rotk - therefore as well as the WK being killed, in movie LOTR so was this nazgul and his steed, and therefore they didn't make it back to mordor to inform Sauron that the ring wasn't near isengard but was in osgiliath......
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I would like to see the evidence. This so intrigued me that I just scanned through the end of RotK. How anyone counts the Nazgul at the Black Gate is beyond me, as I may have seen four-or five at one (they should have all had different colors). Will look again when they attack Minas Tirith.
Maybe there were only six after the Flood of Bruinen
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