2. “I am no man!” Even as a 14-year-old boy reading Lord of the Rings the first time, Eowyn’s cry as she delivers the death blow to the Witch King
was my favorite line of the series. To see it recreated so well—especially Miranda Otto’s perfect delivery—made me cheer out loud in the theater. Tolkien loved the underdog (or understood how much readers identify with the underdog) and Eowyn’s side story as the princess who wanted to be a warrior is a great compliment to the little hobbit who overthrew a seemingly invincible tyrant.
The video includes the entire scene from the Witch King mortally wounding Theoden to Merry wounding the Witch King to Aragorn killing Gothmog. It does not include Theoden’s death scene.
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