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Elthir
Grey Havens
Nov 19 2012, 7:01pm
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As noted in the thread already, Gandalf says: 'One that you cannot slay with arrows' and it's interesting that Tolkien should have Gandalf say this, after the reader has experienced the earlier enounter with fire and water -- the Nine are said to fear fire if I recall correctly, and certainly were 'undone' in some way, for a while at least, after the flood, a physical force.
Does Gandalf mean the arrow (or a fall from a great height) cannot 'slay' the Wraith in the sense that the wraith can just pluck it out, smile, and continue as if nothing, or little enough, had happened?
Or is Gandalf here restating something like what he had noted earlier after the incident at the ford of Bruinen? That the Nine, although they can be 'defeated' by crashing water, cannot be 'ultimately' slain by water, or arrows, or a high fall (although granting that the beast could have died but not necessarily instantly, and maybe after the wraith flew it to the ground).
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Legolas in FOTR
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iandea14
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Nov 19 2012, 6:51am
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Gandalf says so
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sador
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Nov 19 2012, 7:40am
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How does Gandalf know this stuff?
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squire
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Nov 19 2012, 12:52pm
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TTT
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iandea14
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Nov 19 2012, 2:57pm
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Yes. Book III, ch. 5. //
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sador
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Nov 19 2012, 2:59pm
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Uglúk gets in on this too
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Felagund
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Nov 27 2012, 1:48pm
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slaying with arrows
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Elthir
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Nov 19 2012, 7:01pm
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So they are semi-physical?
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CuriousG
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Nov 19 2012, 10:08pm
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physical but invisible maybe
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Elthir
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Nov 20 2012, 7:00pm
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