(I know some of you will kill me for this comparison, but I had to make it anyway)
Tolkien wasn't the only author to make use of humans' subconscious fear of bogs. J.K. Rowling did it too, from the prankster Imps, to, on a much darker note, little gnomish creatures who lure travelers into bogs with torchlight (I forget their name).
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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