So I've Heard This Might Be Inspired By Macbeth. Something To Do With Not Being Killed By Anyone Born. And Then They're Killed By Someone - Tumblr Posts
So fun Lord of the Ring fact about the second one, The Witch King, who says the whole "no man can kill me" misinterprets the prophecy of his death. It would be more accurate to say "he will not be killed by a man", and he wasn't, he was killed by the combine effort of Merry(a halfling) and Éowyn(a women)
Really there were lots of people at the fight who could have killed him, following the strike by Merry with the barrow-blade
Dude was an overconfident idiot who got stabbed in the face for his trouble, its such a fun scene
My top three feminist exploitations of male-default language: 1. “Valar morghulis. All men must die.” “Yes, but we are not men.” - Daenerys, Game of Thrones 2. “No man can kill me!” “I am no man!!!!” - Eowyn, LotR: Return of the King 3. “God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.” “Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth.” - Dr. Ellie Sattler, Jurassic Park