Who attacks the Hobbit rooms?

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Wayfarer
The text strongly inticates that the Witch-King was aiming for a killing blow to the heart. Only Frodo's courage (or foolishness) in charging and attacking caused the blow to miss, saving his life.

It does not say that. As Gandalf indicates in Many Meetings - the goal was for them to take Frodo over to their side - that is why they were able to bide their time. They were aiming for the heart - but it would NOT have "killed" him.

"I have known strong warriors of the Big People who would have quickly have been overcome by that splinter, which you bore for seventeen days...

They tried to pierce your heart with a Morgul-knife which remains in the wound. If they had succeeded, you would have become like they are; only weaker and under their command. You would have become a wraith under the dominion of the Dark Lord; and he would have tormented you for trying to keep his Ring; if any greater torment were possibe than being robbed of it and seeing it in his hand."

...They did not need the guidance of their of their horses any longer: you had become visible to them, being already on the threshold of their world.

Gandalf's first and last comments support that the sliver would have ultimately had the same result had he been struck directly in the heart, but the splinter was enough for the job - or so they thought. It would have been immediate had they struck the heart - but they did feel they could bide their time since Frodo was required to bear the wound for 17 days.

But even that wound was enough, given the potency of the weapon used, that the Nazgul did not feel the need to essay another attack.

They didn't have to - they were just waiting for Frodo to succumb to the wound.