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Old 10-07-2003, 07:45 AM   #17
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I have to disagree with the suggestions that any other man could have killed the WK ... there is a reason that Tolkien set the story up that way. Yes, it did make for a more exciting plot, but I believe there was something more to the event than some are acknowledging. It is true that Glorfindel's prophecy did not actually make anything happen, but the fact that he did prophesize it is significant. The WK himself said that no man can kill him, and I would take his word for it (he had been right for a few millennia). This risks getting into the interweaving of every character's story in ME and suggests a sort of predeterminism, but a man was not meant to or able to kill him ... only a woman/hobbit. I would suggest that no man could have done it.
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