Death of the Witch King.

[Galin]

GrayMouser wrote: So yea, it was a play on words on the double meaning of man- either "male " or "human".

I agree. I note the obvious too: the words 'Man' and 'man' can be distinguished in writing, but Glorfindel's translated prophecy (not originally in English of course) was spoken by the Elf, not written.

And both Eowyn and Merry are included within the story as fulfilling the prophecy, as the Rohirrim (internal characters) include both -- in the book, Merry was said to be 'also' not a Man (according to the footnote in Appendix A concerning Eowyn and the Witch-king), which means to me that the scops of the Rohirrim understand and echo the play on words...

... which surely Tolkien himself was not unaware of