Barrow-Wight
 

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?

There's already a couple topics on this...
Here's one, and here's another.

[ September 07, 2002: Message edited by: Galadrie1 ]

Yeah,those are the things that captured the hobbits until Tom Bombadil saved them....

The Barrow Wight is also the head admin on this forum, just to let you know.

yes well i've read the other threads but i still don't understand why/how it was a big hand. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] and how exactly do they look? i always picture them to be like the nazgûl in a way, but in white. still confused. [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

I'm still confused too. I read the other threads as well and it just makes it even more confusing [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Lady_Báin, I figured they resembled the nazgul as well.

[ September 07, 2002: Message edited by: JenFramp ]

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! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

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..

i think barrow-wights look like skeletons, albeit skeletons with all sorts of regal garb on them-but i wouldn't know for sure.

i reckon the wights would look more like wraiths, sort of quite solid ghosts.

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.