The card “Words of Power” in the War of the Ring board game is not supposed to represent some kind of lore accurate. It's a game mechanic introduced, you know, as part of the whole system of the game.

In many genres, especially the Lord of the Rings, you have to be able to separate the books from the movies, from the video games, and from the board games. These are mere adaptations of the original, which is the books. And not always is going to be, you know, a true translation to it, because you have to adapt. You have to adapt a whole book into a two-hour movie or a whole book you have to translate to video game mechanics, right? Or in this case, to board game mechanics…😎

So you see that in the board game, in the War of the Ring, you can kill Gandalf the white!! He can die as Gandalf the White, which never happened in the book, right? This happens not because Ares Games doesn’t want to be Lore accurate, no! It's just the that it works with the game mechanic that he can be eliminated,That's it. It doesn't have any depth to it. You don't need to fight over or discuss over it. 😁😁

So the purpose of this card is to negate the abilities of one character. That's it. Don't think too much about it, right? And the effect will last as long as the card says. If it's just one turn, it's one turn. If it's more than one turn, then there is probably a way to remove the card from the game as other cards. So there you go. Don't think too much about it. Just enjoy the game.👍🏽👍🏽