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Dispute Over Native Land
As known by all (that go to the Barrow-Downs) today is the birthday of the Barrow-Downs newspaper. Normally, this would be a day of celebration, but recent riots have made the opposite true. Recently, a large group of foreign spirits have gathered around the Barrow-Downs, and they have been complaining wildly. Who are these people?
The spirits of Arnor.
Slain by the Witch-King thousands of years ago, these spirits, freed from Minas Morgul due to the death of the Witch-King, have returned to their native lands, hoping to find peace in the barrows of Cardolan. However, the occupation of their burial mounds has sparked outrage. They demand to speak to the "Lead wight", which is impossible at the moment, due to said wight dying at the hands of an eccentric man of the forest some years ago. The ghosts of Arnor are also angered that the city of Fornost is now called "Deadman's Dike", as if to say that the whole land is cursed. Few quotes could be gathered at the moment, because other than the Nazgul and the Oathbreakers, the dead in Middle-Earth are nearly mute. A hobbit named Frodo Baggins was reported to have heard the "lead wight" sing a song in his stay at the wight's barrow, but that wight appears to have been the only one that could truly speak.
Ultimately, the people of Arnor want to rest in peace, and to do so they need their sacred mounds back.
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"And forth went Morgoth, and he was halted by the elves. Then went Sauron, who was stopped by a dog and then aged men. Finally, there came the Witch-King, who destroyed Arnor, but nobody seems to remember that."
-A History of Villains
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