A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."
A sword rang as it was drawn. "Do what you will, but I will hinder it, if I may."
"Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn am I, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."
Just an aside, looking this up in my 1965 copy of Return of the King, reminds me just how good the writing in LOTR is. People just dont write in this manner anymore, and it makes the products of our modern day "intellectual" class look sophomoric in comparison.
To be fair that part is, sort of, in the book.
Just an aside, looking this up in my 1965 copy of Return of the King, reminds me just how good the writing in LOTR is. People just dont write in this manner anymore, and it makes the products of our modern day "intellectual" class look sophomoric in comparison.