The crown rolled away with a clang. Eowyn fellforward upon her fallen foe. But lo! the mantle and hauberk were empty. Shapeless they lay now on the ground, torn and tumbled; and a cry went up into the shuddering air, and faded to a shrill wailing, passing with the wind, a voice podiless and thing that died, and was swallowed up, and was never heard again in that age of this world.
The Lord of the Rings, page 875