Time to fix Gandalf versus the Witchking

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Originally Posted by obloquy

My analysis of the letter is in a couple of different threads, but if you were to look it up and read it I am sure you would be able to figure out why it does not apply.

OK, after some searching, I found one of your posts with a quote from the letter:

There, put in command by Sauron, he is given an added demonic force.

Although you go on to discount that there is any real enhancement here, it seems like a clearcut statement from Tolkien to me. Hard to make clearer English than this. I could not follow your arguments as to why we should not take this statement seriously...

Otherwise, it doesn't really matter, since dropping this "added demonic force" only makes the portrayal of the WiKi-Gandalf encounter harder to understand...