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JenFramp
09-07-2002, 12:48 PM
OK...what is a barrow-wight exactly..I am aware of their part in the story..I was just a bit confused of what exactly they are..what are they suppose to look like? Is there any artwork on them?
Galadrie1
09-07-2002, 01:22 PM
There's already a couple topics on this...
Here's one, (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=001292) and here's another. (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=001235)

[ September 07, 2002: Message edited by: Galadrie1 ]
Donisile Of Mirkwood
09-07-2002, 01:31 PM
Yeah,those are the things that captured the hobbits until Tom Bombadil saved them....
Gimli Son Of Gloin
09-07-2002, 03:43 PM
The Barrow Wight is also the head admin on this forum, just to let you know.
Lady_Báin
09-07-2002, 06:37 PM
yes well i've read the other threads but i still don't understand why/how it was a big hand. smilies/frown.gif and how exactly do they look? i always picture them to be like the nazgűl in a way, but in white. still confused. smilies/confused.gif
JenFramp
09-07-2002, 08:19 PM
I'm still confused too. I read the other threads as well and it just makes it even more confusing smilies/wink.gif Lady_Báin, I figured they resembled the nazgul as well.

[ September 07, 2002: Message edited by: JenFramp ]
Donisile Of Mirkwood
09-08-2002, 02:07 PM
U aren't suppose to know what they look like,they are suppose to be mysterious,the only ppl who who know what they look like will have been killed minutes later! smilies/wink.gif
JenFramp
09-08-2002, 02:11 PM
I kind of figured that what they look like are suppose to remain mysterious..I guess what I want to know is how does Frodo and all them percieve them..
Demloth of Dol Amroth
09-13-2002, 09:55 PM
i think barrow-wights look like skeletons, albeit skeletons with all sorts of regal garb on them-but i wouldn't know for sure.
Amanaduial the archer
09-14-2002, 01:18 PM
i reckon the wights would look more like wraiths, sort of quite solid ghosts.
Merry Brandybuck
09-18-2002, 03:12 PM
I don't figure Barrow-Wights look like anything. Methinks they're ghosts, invisble like and intangible. But they can animate stuff. The way I see it, a barrow-wight animated that severed arm so it could chop us all to little pieces! I bet they could animate the skeletons in tombs as well. They're ghosts, ultimately. Very evil ones who hate the living. That has always been my take on them. Of course, that's pure speculation on my part. I've never actually read anything official on them.