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The bridge breaks, the staff shatters, the horns call the Witch king away and he falls. Magical beings in LotR show their power by declaring a truth about the world and having the world reflect - even shift and change - to match that truth.
The Witch King calls Gandalf a fool, and he is wrong. Gandalf says, "You cannot enter here." And he is right. /end
In @ann_leckie's The Raven Tower this is the foundation of divine magic -- anything a god says is by definition true, and if the god lacks the power to make reality conform, the god dies instead. So gods are VERY careful in their speech.
One wonders what a Numenorean sorcerer seduced to Sauron's service understands Gandalf to be. He presumably grew up with some history of the 1st Age, then learned the "real" Morgoth-inflected version of events and personalities. Does he even know Gandalf is from the West?
His first hypothesis may be that Gandalf is like himself, but weaker, a Man who delved into sorcery to extend his life and power, but without the straight line to the top of being Sauron's lieutenant and the wearer of (as he'd see it) the strongest Ring but the One.
TLDR, Gandalf has the same powers as Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle (the book), but unlike Sophie, he knows it.
The Witch King is like a boss in an RPG, but Gandalf is way over leveled.
Also, the next line is “die now and curse in vain!” Gandalf’s curse is, “fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your master,” which happens the next time we see the Witch King. Gandalf commands the Witch King to go and die, and he immediately departs and finds Eowyn.
Very good thread! As @tolkienprof has said many times, he is certainly right that it is his hour, just not in the way he expects…
Love this 
;Adding…In “Corvids of Corvus County” an alien technology plays the role of magic— and main characters wielding it are sometimes right, but not in the way they expect. E.g. Ethel in the “Em & Ethel Send It” and then “Silver Derby” @getcallinhttps://callin.com/?link=WpwTMnvxwW …
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