Only a remnant of our eastern force came back, destroying the last bridge that still stood amid the ruins of Osgiliath.' Whenever he came a madness filled our foes, but fear fell on our boldest, so that horse and man gave way and fled. ,his own folk quail at him and they would slay themselves at his bidding', and when he commanded armies his full might of fear aura caused this: ,some said that it could not be seen like a great black horseman, a dark shadow under the moon.

He felt his tongue cleave to his mouth and his heart labouring').Īs for questions about abilities of domination through terror Talion shows, well in Unfinished Tales we are told by Tolkien that Witch-king intimidated a faithful servant of Saruman, his most trusted agent (squint eyed southerner seen in the inn Prancing Pony, an outlaw driven from Dunland, a spy who was roaming Bree-land and Shire or at least South Farthing, making businesses, negotiating and purchasing supplies for Isengard, having shady dealings with locals and so on) and ,put Shadow of Fear' on him and sent out to spy for him to Bree (and this trusted servant betrayed Saruman and started to work for Sauron and Nazgul, it is implied that something supernatural was going on in this situation, this Shadow of Fear might be a form of dominating people), he also intimidated Grima Wormtongue to get information from him, poor Grima almost ate his tongue, so fast he was speaking everything he knew and Witch-king perceived that he will cause trouble to Saruman so he left him alive (but Grima came close to death from terror), also we are told that Witch-king subordinates would be mentally influenced: I seriously doubt that Talion with wraith powers would come even close to defeating Witch-king, first of all he doesn't have special blade of the Barrow Downs made by Dunedain of Arnor ,wound about with spells for the bane of Mordor', the only thing that would allow to even hurt Witch-king as all other weapons would be simply instantly destroyed ,all blades perish that strike that dreadful king', and such a weapon would possibly be harmful for Talion too (as it was for other kinds of undead like Barrow Wights for example), second Witch-king is a sorcerer, one of the most powerful ones, his abilities include blasting a weapon at distance and incapacitating a person wielding it with single gesture (like he did to Frodo, shattering his sword the very same taken from Barrow Downs and ,Frodo was stricken dumb.

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