Kransha, you've got a very interesting point here, and I would like to give you my opinion on the matter.
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Almost never in his writing does he actually state that he is truly dead.
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I think Tolkien deliberately didn't lable the Witch-king as 'dead', because the Witch-king was already an undead. The dead do not die! I believe it is mentioned that whenever the Ring is destroyed, the Ring-wraiths, just as Sauron, would become shades. Still wraiths but with no power left, never again to take form or grow to strength.
greetings,
lathspell
P.S.: Kransha, you say (in the phrase I took from your post) that Tolkien 'almost never' stated the Witch-king dead. Does this mean that you have found a text somewhere in which Tolkien writes he died or is this just a figure of speech from you?