User blog comment:Thornclaw Braveheart/Witch-king of Angmar vs. Eragon Bromsson/@comment-181289-20111129061937

I have to vote for the Witch-King, he is Eragon superior in almost every sense. He is far older, more experienced, impervious to harm from anything but a blade made the Kingdoms or Arnor during his war with them. His screech is going to paralyze Eragon and praobly bring him near unconsious, who's heightened sense of hearing makes a loud room hard for him to stand, let alone the Witch-King screech which can cause men with normal hearing to fall to the ground in pain. Saphira while in terms of physical sense surpasses the Fell-beast, there is something that can't be ignored when facing and opponent with a heightened sense of smell, and that's that these creature smell almost impossibly bad, enough for humans to be driven off by there smell, Spahira with her heightened sense of smell is going be thrown through a loop by the Fell0beast the second it get near her.

The Witch-king's power in magic isn't truly explored in the books or movies to the same degree Eragon's is, Tolkien uses a much more subtle magic than The Inheritance books do, but his magic skills are more likely much higher than Eragon's (or any one in the Inheritance books) he learned sorcery from Sauron, and is over a 1000 years old and has a ring of power. And if we go by what some of the games shown he is definitively a more powerful power magic user.

While I can't totally recall I believe rings of power allow a level of mind reading, so The Witch-King is more than likley going to be used to mind infiltration, even if it's only in dealing with his master.

Finally he's a wraith, he can't be touch my men and his aura of terror is toxic, if the fight drags out (which it would o to the Witch-King's near invulnerably) Eragon and Saphira would start to fell the effects of the Black Breath. Finally there's the morgal blade that will turn it's victim into wraith and a servant of the Witch-King.

Eragon is a poor match for the Witch-King and will eventually bow to the Iron Crown.