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Originally Posted by pyan  I wasn't aware he was - he blocks him in the gate of Minas Tirith, and fends off the Nazgul in the race to save Faramir - so where does he fear him? |
Well, he was at least technically a living man - and no living man could beat the witchking.
And if you take the comment *
There are many powers in this world for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. And against some I have yet to be tested* then he knew fear, and knew he could be beaten.
I don't think he was nescessarily afraid of the witchking - but he always appeared to me to be pretty nervous about facing him. It was his great test - and he could fail, in fact he would have failed if he had faced him instead of Eowyn, because, as I say, he was a living man.
And as for his beating of the balrog was a warrior thing - er I don't think any of the warriors could have shielded themselves, or cracked the bridge with a word, or weilded the secret fire of Anor, or survived being wreathed in flames or even smote his ruin uppon the mountainside 