Timeline for Who, if anyone, was the "witch with the blood of the lion and the wolf"?
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| Oct 4 at 22:59 | history | protected | DavidW | ||
| Sep 13 at 18:21 | answer | added | Catherine | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 4:22 | answer | added | Deeon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 18, 2022 at 10:14 | answer | added | Martq | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 14, 2022 at 17:58 | answer | added | Kirsty | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 28, 2022 at 7:02 | answer | added | Vic | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 0:58 | answer | added | Sarah Poli | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 14, 2022 at 14:13 | answer | added | Anna | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 23:04 | comment | added | Adamant | @Ethan- Well, this is one that does not make sense after the fact, which motivated me to ask this question. And yes, I am asking about the TV series. But if the books clarify how or if the prophecy applies, that is a fine answer as well. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 23:03 | comment | added | Ethan | You mention "the final episode" so I assume you are talking about the video adaptation, which I have not seen. In the books this prophecy is mentioned but I don't recall that it played any large part in the dénouement. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 23:00 | comment | added | Ethan | There is a very long tradition, stretching back through literature, folklore, and legend, of prophecies that are understood only after the fact. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 22:30 | comment | added | Adamant | But "the prophecy about the destruction of the Children of the Night was as real as the Sunday newspaper horoscopes" would certainly be a fine answer to this question, if supported by evidence. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 22:27 | comment | added | Adamant | It would not have been ambiguous to almost anyone in the human or elven cultures of Middle-Earth, in fact. If asked whether a woman was a man, or a hobbit or elf was a man, they would certainly have responded in the negative. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 22:24 | comment | added | Adamant | @Ethan - I think that a good (i.e., real) prophecy makes a specific prediction that can be falsified or confirmed. Otherwise, it is no more fantastical than the many predictions that people make in real life. The prophecy that you referenced should have been perfectly clear to the person hearing it: he was a man in both senses in which the word (or equivalent) was used in his society, and so he knew that the person who killed the Witch-King, if anyone, would have to be a woman or not human. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 22:16 | comment | added | Ethan | A good prophecy is ambiguous enough that it can be retconned to fit whatever happens. "Not by the hand of man..." and all that. | |
| Jan 21, 2022 at 6:49 | history | asked | Adamant | CC BY-SA 4.0 |