If they were still mounted on horses or if they were purely on foot, Stitch. The horses would be easy targets for any weapon he chose to wield, up through and including teeth to the knees, and not even the Witch-King could stand up to him for long- Stitch qualifies under the same rules that let Merry get the knife into the back of the knee. True, Stitch isn't armed with Numenorean weapons, but you never know what he might have found.
If we're in the Fell Beasts part of the book there's a good chance it would be a draw, since one or more Wraiths would be able to get away.
The problem with fighting Stitch is that any creature that depends on either terror or dignity to maintain its atmosphere is going to have its legs kicked out from underneath. And the Wraiths rely heavily on both.
The Ringwraiths are driven by the power of the One Ring, and their primary weapons are inciting fear and despair. Given Stitch's engineering, I can't see him being vulnerable to either fear or despair, and I can't see the One Ring having any power over him either, since he doesn't belong to any of the races over which the Ring was designed to have dominion. (Did that last sentence make any sense at all?)
So it comes down to a physical battle. There is the problem of Stitch not being able to attach their bodies, as they don't really have them, and unless Stitch was forged in the Westernesse he wasn't designed to take out wraiths. But he could go totally ballistic on their mounts, and can launch himself after airborne wraiths (we've seen it done). He's clearly up to fighting multiple opponents. And I suspect that when faced with an enemy that clearly is immune to their powers of fear and despair, the Nazul would call a stragic retreat.
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Date: 2004-03-14 08:19 am (UTC)If we're in the Fell Beasts part of the book there's a good chance it would be a draw, since one or more Wraiths would be able to get away.
The problem with fighting Stitch is that any creature that depends on either terror or dignity to maintain its atmosphere is going to have its legs kicked out from underneath. And the Wraiths rely heavily on both.
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Date: 2004-03-15 05:48 am (UTC)The Ringwraiths are driven by the power of the One Ring, and their primary weapons are inciting fear and despair. Given Stitch's engineering, I can't see him being vulnerable to either fear or despair, and I can't see the One Ring having any power over him either, since he doesn't belong to any of the races over which the Ring was designed to have dominion. (Did that last sentence make any sense at all?)
So it comes down to a physical battle. There is the problem of Stitch not being able to attach their bodies, as they don't really have them, and unless Stitch was forged in the Westernesse he wasn't designed to take out wraiths. But he could go totally ballistic on their mounts, and can launch himself after airborne wraiths (we've seen it done). He's clearly up to fighting multiple opponents. And I suspect that when faced with an enemy that clearly is immune to their powers of fear and despair, the Nazul would call a stragic retreat.
I like Stitch...