[Forgiven_Sinner]

"But then again, I'm one of the few people I know who believes Pippin, not Eowyn, killed the Black Captain on Pellanor Field,with the barrow sword inscribed with runes of power against the Witch King of Angmar."

I had always thought the combination killed the Witch King--Pippin's dagger unloosed the spell that protected him, and Eowyn's sword thrust killed him.

It is logical that Pippin's dagger did the whole thing--except for the prophecy that he could not be killed by the hand of man.

Even with that you could reason that Pippin was not a man. But the sense of the prophecy being fulfilled by Eowyn is there in that passage.

[RosieCotton]

You guys have your hobbitses mixed up! Pippin wasn't even present at that part of the battle.

Merry stabbed the Witch King - and then Eowyn did the actual killing. I don't believe Merry delivered the killing blow, though certainly he helped.

And I still rather wish Eowyn's dialog there hadn't been changed for the movie, though it still works OK, I guess.

[PzLdr]

If you read the passage at the end of the chapter and parse it the way I did, Merry's thrust unbound the Witch King's spirit from the whatever held him together, all before Eowyn stabbed him. And Hobbits aren't men. Eowyn's weapon was an ordinary sword. So while she was a human female [but not a male], I can't see how she could kill the greatest sorceror of his age, and the greatest of the Nine [bearing in mind that none of the other other of the Nine fell to any agency but the dissolution of the Ring of Power, and the eruption of Mt. Doom].