Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5.64.61.239-20130817160806/@comment-68.195.36.69-20140115202508

79.168.237.169 wrote: Yeah the way he died is so ridiculous, only fitting for a story, not reality xD

It remembers me of the unnimersive and unrealistic death of the Witch-King of Angmar in the Lord of the Rings, but oh well, it's how ppl decide to end some stories even though that wouldn't happen in reality..[http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Witch-king_of_Angmar ]

I have no trouble imagining someone underestimating a child who just witnessed her mother's death and dying at the enraged child's hands as a result.

Now hang on, because *this* I take issue with: What do you find so unrealistic or unimmersive (really?) about Éowyn killing the Witch-King? They might've hammed it up a bit in the movie in my never-to-be-humble opinion, but, having grown up reading the books, I tend not to take the movies into account when I talk about LotR (and now the Hobbit). It's right on par with Shakespeare's Macbeth (in which no man birthed by a woman can kill him - or something to that effect - and so the man who ends up killing him was cut out of his mother's womb... a Ceasarian section, as it were).

I think "ridiculous" might be the wrong word to use here. "Dramatic" is probably more appropriate. :)

(Also: "It remembers me of..." makes no sense whatsoever. It should be, "It reminds me of..." such-and-such. This PSA brought to you by my insatiable inner copy-editor.)