Butturbur's Worst Customers

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

My sentence was a comparison, that the uncanny fear of the Black Riders was greater than any fear of the Barrow Wights (see the bolding I've added here); I didn't say that the wights could not inspire fear. It's a matter of degree.

Oh surely greater, but still, even a BW could "freeze" your heart if it came to that, I am sure.

The verb "lives" refers to "one fat man who lives", not to the foes.

Yes, I know, but he "lives" there apparently all his life, and thus, also the enemies are there all the time when he lives (or at least for some time). Certainly Aragorn was not speaking of a few random wraiths or something that was there just for a week and then went away, it would be phrased a lot differently.

Originally Posted by Rumil

Mewlips??

Well, from what is said about them I got the impression that they live closer to the Sea

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

As was stated before, there are many different creatures in ME, it could have been anyone of them. Aren't there some inhabitants of the Ice Bay of Forochel, or however it's called? They might be coming down to Bree. Also, I seem to recall there being spirits living all over Eriador. Weren't there many spirits sorts living there because of the Witch King?

Well, the folk who lives in Forochel are the Lossoth, who are again humans. Ruffians, nomads (anyway, the Lossoth don't make impression that they would neither go that far South - what for? - nor that they would be particularly evil, quite the opposite, they seem to be somewhat primitive, but relatively nice folk, something like Drúedain) - all that certainly would not go well in my imagination with the "dark shapes" or the "heart-freezing foes".

As for the spirits, I also don't think there were that plenty of them. The concentration of them nearest to Bree were the Barrow-Downs, we don't know about anything else, though I could imagine some others roaming Angmar or Rhudaur, but that still does not point to the thing Aragorn mentioned. We don't know anything about another "permanent settlement of wraiths" close to Bree.