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How come

@@yesididitverywell Because Gandalf and the Witch King had a confrontation scene that was cut from the theatrical edition. "I will break him" doesn't have any payoff without that scene

@@asytippyy352 Good thing too. While there was a meeting between the Witch-King and Gandalf in the books, the way it was portrayed in the Extended Edition didn't make sense. The Witch King never breaks Gandalf's staff. In fact, The Witch King is all bravado in the books while Gandalf doesn't even move at all. The meeting (like in the movies) is cut short by the Rohirrim's arrival.

@@nemo0036 Agreed. It was all verbal and I kinda liked it that way, because who was mightiest was of little importance in the context of what the story's about

That's how armies work.

Uhh yeah that's basic hierarchy son.

And Morgoth above Sauron

Well that's what I like to call a professional chain of command.

Saruman mightve been under saurons command but the only reason for that was so he could claim the ring for himself

A level of respect between both despite Gothmog being afraid.

I know. You can use this scene to threat someone.

@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 Afraid? I've never seen Gothmog's face in this scene as scared no matter how many times I've seen it.

@@youtubeuser4943 Look at his body language not just his face and you can read between the lines and the way he talks. He's afraid or at the very least, slightly intimidated, as he should be.

@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 Agree to disagree. I don't see it or hear it in the slightest bit.

Jack o lantern 14 played by but not voiced

@@Historyandlegends789 who did witch king ?

@@believer4002 Lawrence makoare, the same dude who played the uruk Hai boss in the first movie

@Mr. Ditkovitch oh yeah I forgot. Cool pic and username, btw

You can't really notice that.

And its sooo cute

So. Not Toothless?

@@haliapathfinder3832 It's more like Handless.

What's interesting is that Tolkien wrote about those fellbeasts in one letter: "Did the Witch-king ride a pterodactyl at the siege of Gondor? Pterodactyl. Yes and no. I did not intend the steed of the Witch-King to be what is now called a 'pterodactyl', and often is drawn (with rather less shadowy evidence than lies behind many monsters of the new and fascinating semi-scientific mythology of the 'Prehistoric'). But obviously it is pterodactylic and owes much to the new mythology, and its description even provides a sort of way in which it could be a last survivor of older geological eras." The book describes the beast: "The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. An behold! it was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed. Down, down it came, and then, folding its fingered webs, it gave a croaking cry, and settled upon the body of Snowmane, Digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck."

In the classification of a wyvern however

Don't bring that non canon crap into gold.

​@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475calm down those stories despite being non-canon and retconning stuff are good stories with amazing gamepkay mechanics and is what it claims to be. Fun fanfiction.

​@@dr.feelgoodmalusphillips2475 Some of the movies' scenes are non-cannon as well, but the video games, and tv show are especially egregious.

Thats a threat. It sounds like a threat i mean.

Sounds like asthma

Fr

As character, I respect him little more than Sauron cuz of more scenes about him

The wraith, the myth, the legend

hahahaha XD

Witch-king: I will break him! Gothmog: How? Witch-king: Without his staff, the old greybeard is useless! Gothmog: Sir, I am color blind but really sure his beard is white! And I speak raven! That wizard slayed Durin's Doom, the Flame of Udûn , the Nameless Terror! And need no staff to achive that! Witch-king: Well... Gothmog: And I know the Balrogs! My mother named me after Bauglir Gothmog, son of Melko, the High-captain of Iron Prison, and the marshal of the hosts at the Fall of the Hidden City! Do you really think can defeat a creature who is kin with the Lord of the Earth... Witch-king: Hell, you are too educated for an Orc!

​@@bencebotye3904G: Well, thank you, m'lord! Witch-King: That wasn't meant to be a compliment!

Exactly

Witch-King remembering that Wizards are not technically men

LOL! Well I mean...... it's not like it was a clever or secret strategy. "Send forth endless minions until city falls. Understood? Don't fuck it up this time OK?"

Truth be told it is Sauron who is the strategist, while Witch-king is tactician and field commander :) Witch-king is carrying out the will of the mastermind. Going by the book there was more to it than simple waves of 'zerg rush' assaults :), there was planning and thought to it. Minas Tirith on it's own is too powerful to be taken in single assault and Mordor's forces knew this, they were fully prepared for prolonged siege (and city was prepared for it as well with great store of supplies gathered and so on, plus in the book most of the civilian population was evacuated before hand leaving only those most needed, like workers and craftsmen aside from soldiers, support and medical personell in form of the Houses of Healing), but in the meantime they would test the defense at various points (while of course also focusing on the weak point the gate, in the book outer wall of the city is nearly indestructible), the Mordor forces naturally also used terror tactics to demoralize the enemy, so that's why they shot the severed heads, the Nazgul were on purpose using their power, this supernatural 'aura of fear' they created to make Gondor's soldiers into wrecks as well as using their power of Black Breath/Shadow to afflict soldiers with deadly trance-like sickness. Before hand also Mordor made sure so that Gondor had spread it's forces by giving additional threat from the sea by the Corsair fleet, attacking Gondor from other points and taking other cities which left the de facto capital less defended that it could have been if other regions of the realm were not engaged. Additionally Witch-king divided his forces so they would secure their backs while they focused on the city to prevent from reinforcements of Rohirrim to arrive (unfortunately Rohirrim bypassed the blockade by secret unused road). Before that the forces of Gondor have been driven back from their forward defensive strongpoints along the Anduin River in Osgiliath. The withdrawal had been conducted in an orderly manner until the rear guard covering the retreat came under air attack by the Nazgul, which used their air superiority to drive the defenders into a panic. Most significantly, this air sortie wounded the primary land component commander, Faramir, depriving the forces of Gondor of their most effective warfighter. Mordor forces under their commander have fortified their newly taken positions to prevent from any forays from the city, the Orcs prepared trenches and blockades forming lines in case of counterattack. Mordor also used their superior 'artillery' the siege engines they prepared to bombard the city from a distance. Gothmog in the book also was commanded to held some forces in reserve, which were deployed later when things went sour. Sauron also had played the game with use of superior intelligence throught palantir demoralizing the main commander of Gondor, Denethor, Sauron was manipulating Denethor's own attempts at spying on Mordor. "The Gate was shut. All night watchmen on the walls heard the rumour of the enemy that roamed outside, burning field and tree, and hewing any man that they found abroad, living or dead. The numbers that had already passed over the River could not be guessed in the darkness, but when morning, or its dim shadow, stole over the plain, it was seen that even fear by night had scarcely over-counted them. The plain was dark with their marching companies, and as far as eyes could strain in the mirk there sprouted, like a foul fungus-growth, all about the beleaguered city great camps of tents, black or sombre red. Busy as ants hurrying orcs were digging, digging lines of deep trenches in a huge ring, just out of bowshot from the walls; and as the trenches were made each was filled with fire, though how it was kindled or fed, by art or devilry, none could see. All day the labour went forward, while the men of Minas Tirith looked on, unable to hinder it. And as each length of trench was completed, they could see great wains approaching; and soon yet more companies of the enemy were swiftly setting up, each behind the cover of a trench, great engines for the casting of missiles. There were none upon the City walls large enough to reach so far or to stay the work. At first men laughed and did not greatly fear such devices. For the main wall of the City was of great height and marvellous thickness, built ere the power and craft of Númenor waned in exile; and its outward face was like to the Tower of Orthanc, hard and dark and smooth, unconquerable by steel or fire, unbreakable except by some convulsion that would rend the very earth on which it stood. ‘Nay,’ they said, ‘not if the Nameless One himself should come, not even he could enter here while we yet live.’ But some answered: ‘While we yet live? How long? He has a weapon that has brought low many strong places since the world began. Hunger. The roads are cut. Rohan will not come.’ But the engines did not waste shot upon the indomitable wall. It was no brigand or orc-chieftain that ordered the assault upon the Lord of Mordor’s greatest foe. A power and mind of malice guided it. As soon as the great catapults were set, with many yells and the creaking of rope and winch, they began to throw missiles marvellously high, so that they passed right above the battlement and fell thudding within the first circle of the City; and many of them by some secret art burst into flame as they came toppling down. Soon there was great peril of fire behind the wall, and all who could be spared were busy quelling the flames that sprang up in many places. Then among the greater casts there fell another hail, less ruinous but more horrible. All about the streets and lanes behind the Gate it tumbled down, small round shot that did not burn. But when men ran to learn what it might be, they cried aloud or wept. For the enemy was flinging into the City all the heads of those who had fallen fighting at Osgiliath, or on the Rammas, or in the fields. They were grim to look on; for though some were crushed and shapeless, and some had been cruelly hewn, yet many had features that could be told, and it seemed that they had died in pain; and all were branded with the foul token of the Lidless Eye. But marred and dishonoured as they were, it often chanced that thus a man would see again the face of someone that he had known, who had walked proudly once in arms, or tilled the fields, or ridden in upon a holiday from the green vales in the hills. In vain men shook their fists at the pitiless foes that swarmed before the Gate. Curses they heeded not, nor understood the tongues of western men; crying with harsh voices like beasts and carrion-birds. But soon there were few left in Minas Tirith who had the heart to stand up and defy the hosts of Mordor. For yet another weapon, swifter than hunger, the Lord of the Dark Tower had: dread and despair. The Nazgûl came again, and as their Dark Lord now grew and put forth his strength, so their voices, which uttered only his will and his malice, were filled with evil and horror. Ever they circled above the City, like vultures that expect their fill of doomed men’s flesh. Out of sight and shot they flew, and yet were ever present, and their deadly voices rent the air. More unbearable they became, not less, at each new cry. At length even the stout-hearted would fling themselves to the ground as the hidden menace passed over them, or they would stand, letting their weapons fall from nerveless hands while into their minds a blackness came, and they thought no more of war, but only of hiding and of crawling, and of death." ... "Ever since the middle night the great assault had gone on. The drums rolled. To the north and to the south company upon company of the enemy pressed to the walls. There came great beasts, like moving houses in the red and fitful light, the mûmakil of the Harad dragging through the lanes amid the fires huge towers and engines. Yet their Captain cared not greatly what they did or how many might be slain: their purpose was only to test the strength of the defence and to keep the men of Gondor busy in many places. It was against the Gate that he would throw his heaviest weight. Very strong it might be, wrought of steel and iron, and guarded with towers and bastions of indomitable stone, yet it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall." Witch-king also used some of his magic to help the assault on the gate and finally breach it in combination with Grond.

@@fantasywind3923 Yo...

@@fantasywind3923 Oh my...I don't even know what to say...If there is one thing I must say: Thank you for making me feel like reading the books once again, stranger on the internet. _"May the hair on your toes never fall out!"_

He sounded more like an order instead of a strategy.

And so he did.

They actually cut his head not the witch but the creature. in the war. That lady. I don't know her name.

@@sirwhitemeat9785 Yes but in the book he would of had no chance of breaking him!!

@@jackwei22 Actually that’s not true, at the time of the Siege it is said that The Witch-King’s power grew as Sauron’s power grew. Meaning his power was equal to Gandalf the White. Also let’s not forget Gandalf was tiring from the war already. I would argue they were equal in that moment of the war.

Me playing the Third Age Reforged mod as the Realm of Angmar.

And voiced by Andy Serkis

And Lurtz (Lurtz and Gothmog were the only two that didn’t have east London cockney accents)

@@pikppaNope

But better

Yep lol

Nah, Gothmog was the name of the king of balrogs back in the day. For a human to have been named that would be like getting named after a particularly terrible fallen angel. The orc must've taken in to make himself sound more intimidating.

There is an (unofficial) mention of his name, along with that of the 7 other unnamed ones. It lists him as Er-Mûrazôr (or, the Prince of Black Fire). This name appeared in MERP (Middle Earth RolePlaying, as well as the Middle Earth Collectible Card game. it lists the others as Dwar of Waw, Ji Indûr, Akhôrahil, Hoarmûrath, Adûnaphel, Ren and Ûvatha. (and then obviously Khamul as the only actually named one)

In the book they clearly are two different persons, Witch-king's true name was lost to history like names of most of the Nazgul and their identities before they became wraiths. Gothmog is in book Witch-king's second in command, and has official rank of Lieutenant of Morgul; "...... new strength came now streaming to the field out of Osgiliath. There they had been mustered for the sack of the City and the rape of Gondor, waiting on the call of their Captain. He now was destroyed; but Gothmog the lieutenant of Morgul had flung them into the fray"

Lol

You’re thinking of Drakes My man the King is on his Fell Beast But yeah Talion’s just vibing somewhere

@@ItsButterBean1020 Thank God he's not canon.

You mean CNN and every other propaganda left wing media. smh

Slay the child!

He’s just following his masters orders. They currently hold the old capital of Gondor with a massive army that requires a lot of control and coordination so in a way the witch king is letting them run wield with this one because Minas tirith is unprepared

Sure? I think it looks pretty good. It's called a "Fell Beast" as well.

Shut the fuck up

It looks pretty great tbh

Aye, after that "I will break him" line you excpet the Witch-King and Gandalf to have a face-off, but in the theatrical release, that never happened.

True, except Mordor Orc's don't actually know Black Speech. Only Sauron, the Nazgul and other higher-ups knew how to use the language (I think some breeds of Orc are capable too, like Uruk-Hai) Canonically, it's said that the regular Orcs understand some, but cannot speak it because their minds are too crap to understand the complexity of the language. So, it kind of makes sense for him to talk English here. Though with that being said... how cool would it have been if he spoke Black Speech when he confronted Gandalf? That would've been pretty scary.

Orcs don't communicate in black speech